Sick and Famous, who are the celebrities with health conditions: In his book When Illness Goes Public, Barron Lerner, a physician and professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University, discusses the increase in media and general interest in public figures' medical concerns, exploring the way public attention to celebrity illness and medical issues has evolved in the last seventy-five years. Lerner offers a thought-provoking, if not comprehensive, study of this modern phenomenon.
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