When illness goes public celebrity patients and how we look at medicine /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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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.