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Author Fainaru-Wada, Mark.

Title League of denial : the NFL, concussions, and the battle for truth / Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru.

Publication Info. New York : Three Rivers Press, [2014]
©2014

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  RC1220.F6 F35 2014    Available  ---
Edition 1st paperback ed.
Description xiii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLc, New York, in 2013.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-395) and index.
Contents Bird brains -- Discovery: The nutcracker -- Psych 101 -- "Dad is in Ohio" -- Fuck you, Jerry Maguire -- Mike Webster health care system -- Vanilla guy -- Denial: Galen of Pergamon -- Onyemalukwube -- Dissenters -- "The lady doth protest too much" -- A man of science -- Brain hunters -- Reckoning: The art of disease -- Big football -- "Please, see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank" -- Concussion, Inc. -- Buzzards -- Scars of the gladiators.
Summary Both ESPN investigative reporters, the authors reveal how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. This narrative moves between the NFL trenches, America's research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science; it examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research.
Subject National Football League.
National Football League.
Football injuries -- United States.
Football injuries.
United States.
Brain -- Concussion -- United States.
Brain -- Concussion.
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- United States.
Brain -- Wounds and injuries.
Brain damage -- Patients -- United States.
Brain damage -- Patients.
Sports injuries -- United States.
Sports injuries.
Sports medicine -- United States.
Sports medicine.
Football -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Football -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Football.
Added Author Fainaru, Steve, author.
Added Title NFL, concussions, and the battle for truth
ISBN 0770437567 (paperback)
9780770437565 (paperback)