When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / Barron H. Lerner.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

xv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-323) and index.

Chapter 1. First modern patient : the public death of Lou Gehrig.-- Chapter 2. Crazy or just high-strung? : Jimmy Piersall's mental illness.-- Chapter 3. Picturing illness : Margaret Bourke-White publicizes Parkinson's disease.-- Chapter 4. Politician as patient : John Foster Dulles battles cancer.-- Chapter 5. No stone unturned : the fight to save Brian Piccolo's life.-- Chapter 6. Persistent patient : Morris Abram as experimental subject.-- Chapter 7. Unconventional healing : Steve Mcqueen's Mexican journey.-- Chapter 8. Medicine's blind spots : the delayed diagnosis of Rita Hayworth.-- Chapter 9. Hero or victim? : Barney Clark and the technological imperative.-- Chapter 10. "You murdered my daughter" : Libby Zion and the reform of medical education.-- Chapter 11. Patient activism goes Hollywood : how America fought AIDS.-- Chapter 12. Last angry man and woman : Lorenzo Odone's parents fight the medical establishment.