{"product_id":"concussion","title":"Concussion","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeanne Marie Laskas. Used. Very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGQ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that would go on to inspire the movie \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eConcussion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOmalu 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow did this happen?,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Omalu asked himself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow did a young man like Mike Webster end up like this?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books \u0026 Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67117958496429,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksandbrew.net\/products\/concussion","provider":"Books And Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}