CTE, Media, and the NFL
Subtitle: Framing a Public Health Crisis As a Football Epidemic
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781498570565
Subjects: Football; Sports injuries; Mass media and sports
Description: This book examines the mediated construction of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its rise to public and political prominence by way of its direct connection with the NFL. More broadly, this book explores how this relationship situates in and through the sports/media complex.