In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest worldwide, an d a growing recognition of the importance and relevance of sports for children and adolescents. Paediatric Exercise Science and Medicine is the definitive text on an area that is rapidly growing in interest. Wr itten by a team of international authorities, the book explains the pr inciples of developmental exercise science, assessment of performance, the promotion of young people's health and well-being, and the clinic al diagnosis and management of sports injuries in children and adolesc ents. Aimed primarily at exercise...

Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and through them assumptions about the nature of the body and identity. By mapping these perceptions, from their nineteenth-century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their 'discovery' of the psycho-social patient of the late twentieth century, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed.