British Journal of Sports Medicine--historical development.

A History of British Sports Medicine

A review of the British Journal of Sports Medicine 1991-5.

OBJECTIVE To review 5 years of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) to assess the nature of articles published, look at which specialities and nationalities were contributing most frequently, and analyse the numbers of subjects involved in the studies. METHODS Data were collated from all original papers, review articles, and case reports from March 1991 to December 1995. RESULTS Au...

The Historical Development of British Psychiatry

Centuries. By Denis Leigh (Pergamon Press. 70s.) Workers in the field of psychiatry are indebted to Dr. Denis Leigh, who has been collecting material on the history of psychiatry since boyhood, for embarking on the "Historical Development of British Psychiatry". Indeed, a work of this nature is aS essential for the student of psychiatry as the study of embryology is to the student of anatomy. T...

Specialization without the Hospital: The Case of British Sports Medicine

Specialization in medicine acts to normalize categories of health and sickness that, once constructed, can appear to be obvious and rational divisions of the body, of disease, or of populations. While the earliest work on this topic, George Rosen’s sociologically informed The specialization of medicine (1944), highlighted the role of medical theory in specialty formation, historians of medicine...

Why a new sports and exercise medicine journal for clinicians?

Correspondence to Karim Khan; karim.khan@ ubc.ca There has been a massive expansion of sports medicine knowledge since BJSM was launched in 1966. ‘Journals’ themselves have transformed into media channels. In 2015, the target audience in sports and exercise medicine consists of physiotherapists, sports therapists, sport rehabilitators and trainers, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning c...