Title:
When illness goes public celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner.
Main Entry:
Lerner, Barron H.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Publication Date:
2006.
Publication Place:
Baltimore :
ISBN:
0801884624 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject:
Celebrities -- Diseases.
Celebrities -- Biography.
Medicine -- Case studies.
Electronic books.
Contents:
The first modern patient : the public death of Lou Gehrig -- Crazy or just high-strung? : Jimmy Piersall's mental illness -- Picturing illness : Margaret Bourke-White publicizes Parkinson's disease -- Politician as patient : John Foster Dulles battles cancer -- No stone unturned : the fight to save Brian Piccolo's life -- Persistent patient : Morris Abram as experimental subject -- Unconventional healing : Steve Mcqueen's Mexican journey -- Medicine's blind spots : the delayed diagnosis of Rita Hayworth -- Hero or victim? : Barney Clark and the technological imperative -- "You murdered my daughter" : Libby Zion and the reform of medical education -- Patient activism goes Hollywood : how America fought AIDS -- The last angry man and woman : Lorenzo Odone's parents fight the medical establishment.
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