By Barron H. Lerner. 334 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $25. ISBN 978-0-8018-8462-7.
The first thing readers should know about this engaging andimportant book is that it is apparently dangerous to one's reputationto read it in the presence of academic physicians. I noticedthis as I sat and read it in various locations at my own medicalschool. Doctors passing by would scan the title, see the cover— a flashy, silver-screen backdrop with a filmstrip ofcelebrity portraits — and then snicker. When I inquired,I learned that their view was basically this: medicine is noble,Hollywood is ignoble; therefore, there could be no worthwhilestudy of the intersection of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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