When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The First Modern Patient: The Public Death of Lou Gehrig
2. Crazy or Just High-Strung? Jimmy Piersall's Mental Illness
3. Picturing Illness: Margaret Bourke-White Publicizes Parkinson's Disease
4. Politician as Patient: John Foster Dulles Battles Cancer
5. No Stone Unturned: The Fight to Save Brian Piccolo's Life
6. Persistent Patient: Morris Abram as Experimental Subject
7. Unconventional Healing: Steve McQueen's Mexican Journey
8. Medicine's Blind Spots: The Delayed Diagnosis of Rita Hayworth
9. Hero or Victim? Barney Clark and the Technological Imperative
10. "You Murdered My Daughter": Libby Zion and the Reform of Medical Education
11. Patient Activism Goes Hollywood: How America Fought AIDS
12. The Last Angry Man and Woman: Lorenzo Odone's Parents Fight the Medical Establishment
Conclusion
Notes
Index