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CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic

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CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic

Travis R. Bell, "CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic "
English | ISBN: 1498570569 | 2019 | 182 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines the central role of media in constructing an entangled relationship between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the National Football League (NFL), challenging a predominately symbiotic sports/media complex. The authors of this book analyze more than a decade of media coverage, along with three prominent films, to unpack how media discourse resurrects CTE, a preventable degenerative brain disease linked to boxing in 1928, and subsequently frames it as a football epidemic dating back to 2005.







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