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Truth doesn't have a side : my alarming discovery about the danger of contact sports
- Title
- Truth doesn't have a side : my alarming discovery about the danger of contact sports / Dr. Bennet Omalu with Mark Tabb.
- Author
- Omalu, Bennet I. (Bennet Ifeakandu)
- Publication
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Tabb, Mark A.
- Description
- 303 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Offers an account of the author's life, describing his childhood in war-torn Nigeria and the forensic pathology studies that led to his much-criticized findings about the role of concussion in brain disease.
- Alternative Title
- Truth does not have a side
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: God did not intend for human beings to play football -- My father's son -- Child of war -- To be myself -- Answered prayer -- "Heaven is here, and America is here" -- Welcome to America -- Through the wilderness -- Land of contradictions -- A bold gamble -- Finding myself -- A divine appointment -- Prema -- A game-changing diagnosis -- Nearly over before it begins -- The NFL = Big Tobacco -- "In the name of Christ, stop!" -- The baton is passed -- Marginalized, minimalized, ostracized -- I wish I'd never met Mike Webster -- Finding life in the wilderness -- Omalu goes Hollywood -- Concussion -- From doctor to dad: what will I say when my son asks, "Can I play football, pleeeaaaassse?" -- Afterword: "I bet my medical license that O.J. Simpson has CTE" -- Appendix: Questions from parents about brain trauma and contact sports, especially football.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-342
- ISBN
- 9780310351962
- 0310351960
- 9780310352549 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 964502848
- Author
- Omalu, Bennet I. (Bennet Ifeakandu), author.
- Title
- Truth doesn't have a side : my alarming discovery about the danger of contact sports / Dr. Bennet Omalu with Mark Tabb.
- Publisher
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Tabb, Mark A., author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-342