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File Size: 10035 KB
Print Length: 275 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0812987578
Publisher: Random House; Reprint edition (November 24, 2015)
Publication Date: November 24, 2015
Sold by: Random House LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00S3RIMBQ
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I love watching football. I go to all the Baylor games I can, and catch games on TV that I can't attend. When Baylor's not playing, there are plenty of college games I'll watch. I love the long pass plays, the plays where the runner breaks free, the scrambles and miracle catches. But I also love the tough hits, the flattening of the quarterback, the open-field tackles. However, as the players get bigger and the game gets faster, these big hits take a toll, more and more.Dr. Bennett Omalu, a Nigerian doctor, came to the U.S. to pursue the American dream and wound up in the middle of a controversy that shook up the sport of football. Using first-hand accounts, as well as lengthy passages in Omalu's own voice, Jeanne Marie Laskas tells Omalu's story in Concussion. Dr. Omalu had never heard of "Iron Mike" Webster before his body arrived in the coroner's office where he worked. Omalu began studying his brain and the brains of other football players, discovering in the process a brain disorder he labelled chronic traumatic encephalopathy.Needless to say, his findings were not popular with the NFL, whose hired researchers were busy debunking the idea that football leads to brain damage. Omalu stubbornly continued his research and ultimately changed the landscape of football. Despite the efforts to improve helmet technology, the movement of the brain inside the skull can't be prevented in a collision. As the brain is jostled on play after play, damage accumulates and may not manifest itself until years later.As long as the teams line up every weekend, I and millions of fans will be cheering them on. Fans, the NFL, college coaches, and coaches and players all the way down to the peewee leagues need to evaluate the way they coach, the way they play, and the extent to which they value the individual player. I don't see American's giving up on their favorite spectator sport, but the pattern of damage that Omalu exposed cries out for change in the game.Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!
Even if you're not much of a football fan, you may remember some controversy a few years back when the NFL, confronted with evidence that their players were in danger of permanent brain damage, established some new rules intended to tone down the worst of the inherent roughness of football and prevent players who had sustained a head injury from going back onto the field until fully recovered. A lot of fans thought that was sort of a sissy move: after all, the violence of huge, solidly-built men slamming into each other was part of the thrill of the game, and the risk of injury has always been part of any sport. In this case, however, the players really hadn't been in a position to make an informed decision about risks and rewards. Anecdotal evidence and independent studies of the effects of multiple concussions in rats had suggested for years that what happened on the football field couldn't possibly be good for the brain, but the NFL quickly arranged its own team of experts, and they insisted there was no danger. Then, one day in 2002, a young medical examiner in Pittsburgh, acting on a hunch, decided in the course of a routine autopsy to take a closer look at the brain of a pro football player. The brain belonged to Hall of Famer "Iron Mike" Webster, who had, in the final years of his life, become increasingly violent, irrational, and paranoid. The medical examiner, Bennet Omalu, was a Nigerian immigrant, driven and curious, protégé of the celebrated forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht. What he discovered in Webster's brain would set in motion a chain of events that would ruin careers, expose cover-ups, and very likely save lives.It's a true story that, even without embellishment, reads like the plot of a novel. Jeanne Marie Laskas has never written a novel, but she's well-known for her creative, intimate narrative nonfiction - and now she has turned the literary gifts that served her so well over the course of a trilogy of memoirs to this tale of sports and science. Readers interested exclusively in the medical and/or legal aspects of the NFL head-trauma controversy might well be advised to look elsewhere, as "Concussion" is first and foremost Dr. Omalu's story - but even they might find this lively little book a genial supplement to the more comprehensive or technical literature. Laskas's portrait of the quirky neuropathologist, though not always flattering (Omalu can be inconsistent and naive), is suffused with warmth and admiration. Although Omalu's work on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, what I'd picked up the book to read about in the first place, is barely alluded to in the first 85 pages, so engaging is Laskas's account of her subject's early life and education, and so quickly did the pages of smooth prose seem to turn themselves, that I hardly noticed the delay."Concussion" would be worth reading for the inherent interest of the story alone, but Laskas's presentation is, for the most part, an asset. As her Acknowledgements make clear, she researched her story with the thoroughness of a journalist, but she relates it with the vividness and flow of that sometimes enigmatic subgenre, the nonfiction novel. Instead of dumping information on us, she often recreates events and conversations "as accurately as an informed imagination will allow." Unfortunately, I have a couple of minor quibbles with her style. Her alternating use of past and present tenses in different chapters or sections of the book didn't really work for me. Done right, a shift from past to present tense can add tension and immediacy to a narrative, but there didn't seem to be any rule governing Laskas's decision to use one or the other, and it felt a bit sloppy. I was also mildly confused by occasional passages printed in italics that seemed to be written in Dr. Omalu's own voice, unsure whether these were truly Omalu's own words or Laskas's creative reconstruction of his thought process. (It's the former, but that isn't made clear until the Acknowledgements.)I can't help wanting to call special attention to the wisdom and understanding Laskas brings to the parts of the book that describe Omalu's struggle with depression as a young adult. I don't know whether Laskas (or someone very close to her) has actually suffered from depression, or if she just listened to Omalu's own account with unusual empathy, but I can say for certain that she *gets* it. Seldom have I read before, even in books specifically about the subject of depression, anything like this: "Depression starts like a membrane, a shield you can't pierce, the internal world so vivid and nagging, the external world right *there*, right in front of you. He felt angry at the world for being so difficult to enter. . . . Depression is like a virus festering in your mind, and the discovery of it can cripple before it cures. . . . Depression isn't a thing that lifts or disappears just because of a change of scenery. The voice follows you no matter where you go, reminding you that you are worthless." That's some powerful stuff - and with black sufferers being less likely than whites, and men less likely than women, to seek treatment for depression, I can't thank Laskas and Omalu enough for giving the world the story of a Nigerian man who struggled in that black fog for years, then emerged to accomplish great things.
"This is nonfiction. This is nonfiction." That is what I kept reminding myself while reading this enthralling and spellbinding (nonfiction!) book by Jeanne Marie Laskas.Of course, it is nonfiction. It made big headlines. It was made into a movie. The story is big and bold—how Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born physician with two medical degrees and a specialization in forensic pathology, discovered CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) as a cause of death in retired football players. Translation: The constant head pounding—even without ever getting a concussion—that is part of the game of football can cause brain deterioration and severe personality changes. CTE is fatal; it is directly linked to the deaths or suicides of multiple former NFL players.Of course, the NFL was outraged. NFL-paid physicians did all they could to denigrate Bennet's research. Think a real-life David and Goliath, but instead of a slingshot filled with rocks, Bennet had slides of brain tissue proving something horrendous really was happening. And since facts are far more formidable than falsities, facts eventually won, but not without a big price for all involved—especially Bennet.Jeanne Marie Laskas is such an amazingly gifted writer that the book (nonfiction!) reads like a novel—so much so that at times, I shook my head thinking "THAT would never happen." Oh, wait. It's nonfiction. It DID happen.Don't worry if you know how this (nonfiction!) book ends. The beginning, the middle and the rest of it are so fascinating and written with such intense page-turning suspense, I highly encourage you to read it.
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