title: [The control of the population under the Vichy Government (1940-1944), a benefit for sports medicine].
abstract: The sports movement benefited from the severe measures implemented by the Vichy Government in France.The ideological sensitivity that was granted to the benefits of physical activities was responsible for the French state's will to improve sport practice. The medical intelligentsia was not in favour of such a great political effort, because of generalized malnutrition. However, health professionals were quickly muzzled by the authorities, and their warning signal was soon to be hushed up. Finally, in the line of the well-tested population control strategies set up by the Vichy government, French doctors of physical education and sport whose practice till then had not found propitious conditions for its development, would at last be able to take a stand thanks to an unprecedented institutionalization of sports medicine.
authors.forename: Baptiste
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Viaud
mesh_terms: D015444:Exercise; D005602:France; D033161:Government Regulation / Q000266:history*; D006293:Health Promotion; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011056:Political Systems / Q000266:history*; D013178:Sports Medicine / Q000266:history*