When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine by Barron H. Lerner

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

Barron H. Lerner

352 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative medium-paced
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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 describ...

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