TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerner,Barron H.
TI  - When illness goes public: celebrity patients and how we look at medicine 
SN  - 9780801884627 (alk. paper)
AV  - R703 .L47 2006
U1  - 610.92/2 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Famous Persons
KW  - Chronic Disease
KW  - Mass Media
KW  - Public Opinion
KW  - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
KW  - Case Reports
N1  - 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
ER  -