When illness goes public [[electronic resource] ] : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / / Barron H. Lerner |
Autore | Lerner Barron H |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 610.92/2 |
Soggetto topico |
Celebrities - Diseases
Celebrities Medicine |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8018-8955-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452156103321 |
Lerner Barron H | ||
Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
When illness goes public [[electronic resource] ] : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / / Barron H. Lerner |
Autore | Lerner Barron H |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 610.92/2 |
Soggetto topico |
Celebrities - Diseases
Celebrities Medicine |
ISBN | 0-8018-8955-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778349203321 |
Lerner Barron H | ||
Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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