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BOXING
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Medical Aspects
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Edited By
Friedrich Unterharnscheidt
Julia Taylor Unterharnscheidt
Reviews
"The book repeatedly enters uncharted territory. The table of contents includes everything from the mechanics of head injury to hand
injuries to theologians' view of pugilism. Friedrich Unterharnscheidt is a medical scientist, a neurologist, and neuropathologist.
He states, 'It is not my intention to support or oppose boxing as a sport; my own research and experience with head trauma and boxing
injuries compels me as a physician and a scientist to let the findings be known so that prospective boxers and in some cases their parents,
can make an informed decision to accept the risks.'...The authors do lay out the body of available scientific knowledge of boxing and
a large amount of literature from newspapers, magazine, and books in an attempt to provide debate regarding perpetuation of the sport...the
boxing photographs in the book are magnificent and provide a medical history of the sport that has never been done before. This alone
would be fascinating to any boxing fan. From a physician's perspective, the chapters dealing with brain injuries, including statistics,
studies, and pictures of actual boxers' brains are truly insightful."
-Margaret Goodman, MD for THE RING, October 2005
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