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A carregar... Concussion (2015)por Jeanne Marie Laskas
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Summer345456 | Jan 25, 2023 |    ) jmchshannon | Dec 22, 2022 |  ) suzannekmoses | May 20, 2022 | While there are not too many surprises in this book (especially if you have followed this story in the media) it was a quick interesting read that tells the story of a generous and kind human being doing his best in the name of science, despite the roadblocks he faces along the way. In a story with a multitude of despicable characters, Laskas focuses on the one who can inspire hope. ( ) mackinsquash | Aug 15, 2020 | The story dragged in a few places, felt like it was padded a bit, but always pulled me back in. It was both discouraging that so many health discoveries are predicated on big money funding the research and politics, and heartening that honest scientists can still have a voice if they speak the truth loud enough and long enough. I haven't seen the movie this book was based on, nor have I read the article that the movie was based on, but I found the discussion of concussions very interesting, having lived through one of my own recently. It is a frightening prospect and I can't imagine going through it day after day and week after week as many football players do. (  ) MrsLee | Dec 25, 2019 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML: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 Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Anyway, I was entertained by Bennets life and I liked learning about Nigeria and the Igbo culture. I thought his family history and himself was very impressive. The book was slightly boring but I definitely learned a lot about CTE, the shady ways of the NFL, and Nigeria. I felt very sad for Bennet because if I worked that hard, only to have my work and research be told it was "Bad and unethical" I would be crushed.
The only thing I would say but it wasn't really bad or anything, I just felt a lot of the information was rushed in a way towards the end.
I'm going to see the movie this weekend with my father, so I hope Will Smith doesn't disappoint. (