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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. In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. 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. After retiring…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2016
    Penguin Books, Limited · 288 pages · 9780241975916
  • Other · English · 2015
    Random House Trade Paperbacks · 288 pages · 9780812987577
  • Other · English · 2015
    Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241975923
  • Other · English · 2015
    Random House Publishing Group · 288 pages · 9780812998085
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