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

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Hoofdauteur: Lerner, Barron H.
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.