When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lerner, Barron H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Celebrities > Diseases.
Celebrities > Biography.
Medicine > Case studies.
Chronic diseases.
Celebrities.
Mass media.
Chronic Disease
Famous Persons
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Mass Media
Public Opinion
Communications Media
Célébrités > Maladies.
Célébrités > Biographies.
Médecine > Études de cas.
Maladies chroniques.
Célébrités.
Médias.
mass media.
MEDICAL > Physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Mass media
Chronic diseases
Celebrities
Celebrities > Diseases
Medicine
Case Reports
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies
Case studies
Biographies.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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