[Free and download] When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
✿ Barron H. Lerner ✿
| #391620 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2006-11-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.08 x6.00l,1.38 | File Name: 0801884624 | 352 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Better than I expected|By J. Hicks|This is a thoughtful and well researched book. It is far from an exploitive tell all about celebrity deaths. Rather, it uses key well-known personalities to illuminate the evolution of public and media driven medical thought. How does public perception of disease and medicine change over time? Our understandings (and misunderstandings) of med|From Booklist|Today it's commonplace for Carnie Wilson to chat about her gastric bypass surgery on talk shows or Sally Field to hype a drug by talking about her osteoporosis. Celebrities yapping about what ails t
Steve McQueen had cancer and was keeping it secret. Then the media found out, and soon all of America knew. McQueen’s high profile changed forever the way the public perceived a dreaded disease.
In When Illness Goes Public, Barron H. Lerner describes the evolution of celebrities' illnesses from private matters to stories of great public interest. Famous people who have become symbols of illness include Lou Gehrig, the first "celebrity patient"; Ri...
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