Title:
Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.
ISBN:
9780812987577
9780812989267
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Publication Information:
New York : Random House, 2015.
Physical Description:
269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
"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:
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. What Omalu discovered in Webster’s brain—proof that Iron Mike’s mental deterioration was no accident, but a disease caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game—was the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.
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OCLC Number:
ocn907446525
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