Concussion (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Autor*innen

• Jeanne Marie Laskas

Parameter

• 288 Seiten
• 11 Lesestunden

• Biografien & Memoiren
• Medizin & Gesundheit
• Sachliteratur
• Sport
• Wissenschaft

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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 was caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game -- the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback