A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice - Sports Book Award Special Commendation
Autor Hana Walker-Brownen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2022
A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should.
A teenage rugby player plays on through multiple blows - and never wakes up from the last one.
A scientist reveals endemic brain disease in NFL players and is discredited.
From the gladiator arenas of history to the rugby pitches of today, athletes have always forfeited their bodies for sport, with grievous bodily contact consistently celebrated as the ultimate performance of toughness and masculinity. But at what cost? This is the story of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) - a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head, and whose impact in the sporting world is only now coming to light.
A Delicate Game is a searing investigation that explores the truth about brain injury in sport and beyond it, from the social dynamics that send young men into violent and dangerous pursuits, to the scientists searching for truth and the families living with the consequences - and it will change the way you think about sport forever.
'Beautifully written, deeply moving and absolutely mind-blowing' Julia Ebner
'A clarion call of great conviction and urgency' Irish Examiner
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781529348064
ISBN-10: 1529348064
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder & Stoughton
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1529348064
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder & Stoughton
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Praise for The Beautiful Brain
'I can't even tell you how many women and their caregivers found us and joined our support groups thanks to The Beautiful Brain and Hana's work on TBI in Domestic Violence because I have lost count! There is a true power in this work
I can't stop thinking about its core message - the breadth or argument and depth of detail are remarkable
It's gripping and essential - if often overwhelmingly poignant and righteously enraging, as much a call-to-arms as a piece of investigative journalism
Hana Walker-Brown is an incredible talent, deftly shifting between storyteller, science communicator, and political commentator. Prepare to be informed, devastated, and to find yourself raring to join in the campaign to make sure head trauma is understood and prevented at all costs."
Moving...persuasive...timely...absorbing...well-researched...required reading
A well-timed and comprehensive publication for all sports men and women
An ambitious and powerful piece of investigative journalism . . . [Walker-Brown's] writing is political in the best sense, protest writing, a clarion call of great conviction and urgency
'I can't even tell you how many women and their caregivers found us and joined our support groups thanks to The Beautiful Brain and Hana's work on TBI in Domestic Violence because I have lost count! There is a true power in this work
I can't stop thinking about its core message - the breadth or argument and depth of detail are remarkable
It's gripping and essential - if often overwhelmingly poignant and righteously enraging, as much a call-to-arms as a piece of investigative journalism
Hana Walker-Brown is an incredible talent, deftly shifting between storyteller, science communicator, and political commentator. Prepare to be informed, devastated, and to find yourself raring to join in the campaign to make sure head trauma is understood and prevented at all costs."
Moving...persuasive...timely...absorbing...well-researched...required reading
A well-timed and comprehensive publication for all sports men and women
An ambitious and powerful piece of investigative journalism . . . [Walker-Brown's] writing is political in the best sense, protest writing, a clarion call of great conviction and urgency