| Description |
269 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Random House Trade Paperback Original"--T.p. 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. |
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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. |
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Brain -- Concussion.
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Sports injuries.
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Head -- Wounds and injuries.
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Football injuries.
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Omalu, Bennet I. (Bennet Ifeakandu)
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Brain -- Concussion.
(OCoLC)fst00837600
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Head -- Wounds and injuries.
(OCoLC)fst00952611
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Sports injuries. (OCoLC)fst01130688
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| ISBN |
9780812989267 (pbk : acid-free paper : movie tie-in ed) |
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0812989260 (pbk : acid-free paper : movie tie-in ed) |
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9780812987577 (acid-free paper) |
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0812987578 (acid-free paper) |
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