Research Catalog
When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine
- Title
- When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner.
- Author
- Lerner, Barron H.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
2 Items
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | R703 .L47 2006 | Off-site | |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- xv, 334 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Case Reports.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The first modern patient : the public death of Lou Gehrig -- Ch. 2. Crazy or just high-strung? : Jimmy Piersall's mental illness -- Ch. 3. Picturing illness : Margaret Bourke-White publicizes Parkinson's disease -- Ch. 4. Politician as patient : John Foster Dulles battles cancer -- Ch. 5. No stone unturned : the fight to save Brian Piccolo's life -- Ch. 6. Persistent patient : Morris Abram as experimental subject -- Ch. 7. Unconventional healing : Steve McQueen's Mexican journey -- Ch. 8. Medicine's blind spots : the delayed diagnosis of Rita Hayworth -- Ch. 9. Hero or victim? : Barney Clark and the technological imperative -- Ch. 10. "You murdered my daughter" : Libby Zion and the reform of medical education -- Ch. 11. Patient activism goes Hollywood : how America fought AIDS -- Ch. 12. The last angry man and woman : Lorenzo Odone's parents fight the medical establishment.
- ISBN
- 0801884624 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780801884627 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780801884627 (alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2006005258
- OCLC
- ocm64084754
- 64084754
- SCSB-5315704
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries