Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The 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. The Last Angry Man and Woman: Lorenzo Odone's Parents Fight the Medical Establishment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.