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AFTER CERTAINTY

Organization

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. public-health agency whose concussion and return-to-play guidance frames embodied risk outside team incentives.

Why this matters

Provides institutional language for when safety protocols contradict the moral pressure to play hurt.

Focus in observatory

Works

institutional document

Returning to Sports

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Returning to Sports." https://www.cdc.gov/heads-up/guidelines/returning-to-sports.html.

institutional document

Symptoms of Concussion

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Symptoms of Concussion." https://www.cdc.gov/heads-up/signs-symptoms/.

Related books

Book

The Game We Think We Saw

What Sports Reveals About Winning, Judgment, and the Stories Results Cannot Settle

Sports gives us some of the clearest outcomes in public life. A score becomes final, a ruling takes effect, and one side advances. But the result cannot fully explain what produced it, why it should count, what it is allowed to justify, who carried its cost, or what the event will eventually mean. The Game We Think We Saw follows those unsettled questions from the scoreboard into the systems, bodies, judgments, and stories surrounding the game.