Dear all,
Please find below an announcement about a 10% discount and free shipping on
Dr. Vivienne Lo's recent edited volume "Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine
and Immortality" (published by The British Museum).
Kind regards,
Michael Stanley-Baker
University College London
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Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality
Edited by Dr Vivienne Lo
This book publishes papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference
convened by Dr Lo at the British Museum.
Academics from diverse fields, including historians, anthropologists,
sociologists and public health physicians were asked to consider sports and
body cultivation East and West.
By presenting rigorous situated histories of changing training regimen in
different cultures, collectively the papers challenge orthodox notions of
the perfect body and its pursuit.
The introductory essay by the editor compares and contrasts different
methods and ideals.
This handsomely illustrated publication (with rarely seen images both from
the British Museum's own collections and from other archives of great
historic and cultural value) is of interest not only to the growing numbers
studying and researching the history of sport and body training but also to
policy makers in public health responding to the urgent need to promote
participation in physical exercise across different age groups and
communities.
The Editor Vivienne Lo is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at UCL
and Director of the UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity.
Discount The British Museum is offering 10% off plus free P&P on Perfect
Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality starting June 14th 2012. Simply
quote PerfectB10 when ordering online at britishmuseum.org/shop
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