When Illness Goes Public : Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lerner, Barron H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public Opinion > Case Reports.
Mass Media > Case Reports.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice > Case Reports.
Famous Persons > Case Reports.
Chronic Disease > Case Reports.
Medicine > Case studies.
Celebrities > Biography.
Celebrities > Diseases.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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