When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lerner, Barron H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities--Diseases.

Celebrities.

Celebrities--Biography.

Medicine--Case studies.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marrying great storytelling to an exploration of the intersection of science, journalism, fame, and legend, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of health and illness.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-8955-3

OCLC:

298787718