Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health Audiobook

A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports

American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a product that is dangerous to those who use it—or, in this case, those who play it. Daniel S. Goldberg explores the connections among traumatic brain injury, collision sports, and the industry's continuing efforts to manufacture doubt.

Focusing especially on youths and adolescents—the most vulnerable population that comprises over 99 percent of tackle football players in the United States—Goldberg addresses the ethical and social implications of their participation in tackle football.

As the tackle football industry has consistently worked to mask the health hazards, it has used a particular tool that has proved highly effective in achieving this subterfuge: the manufacture of doubt. Goldberg advocates for using public health laws as a tool for countering these efforts at obfuscation, and he outlines specific policy proposals intended to address the population health and ethical problems presented by tackle football.

The book draws on public health ethics, public health law, and the histories of occupational and public health to assess the limits of parental choice to expose their children to risks of injury.

Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, provides a timely and insider's perspective on these critical issues in the foreword.

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“This excellent book applies historical, medical, ethical, and legal lenses to unpick why and how we think what we do about collision-related sports injury…A nuanced perspective on what meaningful action might entail.”

— Nason Maani, University ofEdinburgh