Personal Challenges, Public Struggles: An Overview of Celebrity Health Narratives and Implications for Public Health Conversations -- From Actress to Cancer Patient: Brooke Burke-Charvet Dances through Thyroid Cancer -- Just Like Kim: Kim Kardashian's Battle with Psoriasis -- "I never wanted to be the poster child for this": Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bipolar II Disorder -- "I get diabetes just watching Paula Deen": Public Responses to Paula Deen's Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis -- Celebrity Body Image Narratives and the Media: A Framework for Personal Health Disclosure? -- Celebrity Death Narratives in the Media: College Student Perceptions on Conversations and Disclosure -- No "I" in Team: Impression and Boundary Management in Illness/Injury Narratives Involving Sports Celebrities -- Blurring "Real" and "Reel" Life: Integration of Daytime Drama Actor Illnesses into Soap Opera Storylines and Health Promotion -- A Tangled Web of Health Troubles: Giuliana Rancic's Fight for a Family Goes Public -- Trust in Robin Roberts: The Journey of a Woman Who Breaks Her Own News -- She Turns the World Around with Their Smiles: Mary Tyler Moore Takes Kids to Congress -- Continuing the Conversation.
Summary:
We follow celebrities on Twitter and Facebook, watch them on television, and read about them in supermarket checkout lines. Our relationship with celebrities has never been so immediate. Their personal trials are news headlines and water cooler talk. Offering the first extensive look at celebrity health sagas, this book examines the ways in which their stories become our stories, influencing public perception and framing dialog about wellness, disease and death. These private-yet-public narratives drive fund-raising, reduce stigma and influence policy. Celebrities such as Mary Tyler Moore, Robin Roberts, Michael J. Fox, and Christopher Reeve--as well as 200 others included in the study--have left a lasting legacy. -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.