Sperryn and Sir Roger Bannister. It was attended by some 150 participants many of them outstanding in the world of sport and including sportsmen and women, coaches, medical advisers, biologists, sociologists, physical education experts and sports commentators. The volume has more than 30 contributors and contains fourteen major papers, ten subsidiary ones and synopses of the stimulating discussions. The subject matter is wide-ranging and gives a remarkable overview of sport today. The treatment

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... is necessarily selective within topics, but the whole is firmly held together by the central theme of the interaction of biological and social factors-by the biosocial approach. This is a book for the general reader as much as for the expert, for women as much as for men, and for those who watch sport as much as for those who take part in it.