Lerner, Barron H. <br/><br/>
When illness goes public :  celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / 
Barron H. Lerner. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2006. 
 - xv, 334 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801884624 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006005258 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101295522  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Celebrities--Diseases.<br/>Celebrities--Biography.<br/>Medicine--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R703  / .L47 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.92/2 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2006 O-060 WZ 313  / L616w 2006