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Concussion
Contributor(s): Laskas, Jeanne Marie (Author)

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ISBN: 0812987578     ISBN-13: 9780812987577
Publisher: Random House Trade
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Football
- Sports & Recreation | Health & Safety
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients)
Dewey: 617.510
LCCN: 2015020171
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.50 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2015
Library Journal 10/15/2015 pg. 92
Booklist 10/15/2015 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly 10/19/2015
Shelf Awareness 12/18/2015
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2016 pg. 7
 
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Publisher Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered something he could not ignore. The NFL tried to silence him. His courage would change everything.

"A gripping medical mystery and a dazzling portrait of the young scientist no one wanted to listen to . . . a fabulous, essential read."--Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story for GQ that would go on to inspire the movie Concussion. Omalu told her about a day in September 2002, when, in a dingy morgue in downtown Pittsburgh, he picked up a scalpel and made a discovery that would rattle America in ways he'd never intended.

Omalu was new to America, chasing the dream, a deeply spiritual man escaping the wounds of civil war in Nigeria. 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, one of the greatest ever to play the game. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. Toward the end of his life, he was living out of his van, tasering himself to relieve his chronic pain, and fixing his rotting teeth with Super Glue. How did this happen?, Omalu asked himself. How did a young man like Mike Webster end up like this?

The search for answers would change Omalu's life forever and put him 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.

Taut, gripping, and gorgeously told, Concussion is the stirring story of one unlikely man's decision to stand up to a multibillion-dollar colossus, and to tell the world the truth.

 
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