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In March 2007, Elizabeth Edwards went public with her battle against breast cancer, joining a long list of famous people who have come forward in recent years to talk about their illness. But unlike Edwards, who is married to former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, people in the public eye weren’t always so forthcoming, as Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D., documents in his book When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine.
The 2006 book, supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, traces the evolution of celebrities and their relationship with the public and the media around disclosure of serious illness. Here, Lerner examines the impact celebrities have had on Americans’ personal struggles with illness, and how those stories have helped shape health care policy. What he sees is a cultural shift—taking what were once considered very private matters and making them stories of great public interest.
“What we’ve had over the last 60 to 70 years is a real opening-up of celebrity illness,” says Lerner, Angelica Berrie-Gold Foundation Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. In many instances, he says, the telling of these stories has had such a dramatic impact on the American public that ultimately doctors and health policymakers drew powerful lessons from them as well.
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