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Author Lerner, Barron H.

Title When illness goes public [electronic resource] : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

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Description xv, 334 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Celebrities -- Diseases.
Celebrities -- Biography.
Medicine -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0801884624 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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