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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Three Rivers Press, 2014.Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: xiii, 413 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0770437567
  • 9780770437565
Other title:
  • NFL, concussions, and the battle for truth
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC 1220 .F6 F35 2014
Contents:
Bird brains -- Discovery: The nutcracker -- Psych 101 -- "Dad is in Ohio" -- Fuck you, Jerry Maguire -- The Mike Webster health care system -- The vanilla guy -- Denial: Galen of Pergamon -- Onyemalukwube -- The dissenters -- "The lady doth protest too much" -- A man of science -- The 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.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection RC 1220 .F6 F35 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98650241

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-395) and index.

Bird brains -- Discovery: The nutcracker -- Psych 101 -- "Dad is in Ohio" -- Fuck you, Jerry Maguire -- The Mike Webster health care system -- The vanilla guy -- Denial: Galen of Pergamon -- Onyemalukwube -- The dissenters -- "The lady doth protest too much" -- A man of science -- The 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.

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.

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