When illness goes public celebrity patients and how we look at medicine Barron H. Lerner
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore, MA John Hopkins University Press 2006Description: xv, 334 p ill 24 cmISBN:- 9780801892271
- 610.922
Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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4 Week Loan | St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny | St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny | Open Shelves | 610.922 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 029772 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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