Summary: Examines the realities of brain injuries sustained on the field by football players and the National Football League's attempts to cover the issue up.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEA

Sandel, Elizabeth

Summary: "Sports concussions make headlines, but you don't have to be an NFL star to suffer traumatic brain injury. In Shaken Brain, Elizabeth Sandel, MD, shares stories and research from her decades treating and studying brain injuries. She explains what concussions do to our bodies, how to avoid them, and how to recover"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SAN

Laskas, Jeanne Marie

Summary: The unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts him in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the NFL.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 LAS