When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine /
Lerner, Barron H.
When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. - xv, 334 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
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.
9780801884627 (alk. paper) 0801884624 (alk. paper)
2006005258
Famous Persons
Chronic Disease
Mass Media
Public Opinion
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Case Reports
R703 / .L47 2006
610.92/2
WZ 313 / L616w 2006
When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. - xv, 334 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
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.
9780801884627 (alk. paper) 0801884624 (alk. paper)
2006005258
Famous Persons
Chronic Disease
Mass Media
Public Opinion
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Case Reports
R703 / .L47 2006
610.92/2
WZ 313 / L616w 2006