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Author:

Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958-

Title:

Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Omalu, Bennet I.--(Bennet Ifeakandu)
Brain--Concussion.
Sports injuries.
Head--Wounds and injuries.

Notes:

"A Random House Trade Paperback Original"--Title page verso. "The [2015] motion picture Concussion is based on the GQ article "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, published September 2009"--Title page verso.

Contents:

Obscurity -- Running -- Spiral -- America -- Fancy -- The morgue -- Discovery -- Belonging -- Attack -- Scramble -- Oddball -- Comfort zone -- Word -- Daddy.

Summary:

The unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts him in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the NFL.
In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. Iron Mike's mental deterioration caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game-- the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.

ISBN:

0812989260
9780812989267
0812987578
9780812987577

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907446525

LCCN:

2015020171

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