Michael J Fox. Ebury Press, London: 2003.

Michael J Fox, star of the Back to the Future trilogy, was born in 1961, moved to Hollywood aged 18 and while avidly lapping up the customary attention and refreshments, he developed Parkinson’s disease. This description of the (superficially) glamorous journey of a famous actor is interspersed with compelling vignettes of the stages of his disease (including his thalamotomy), of his attempts to comb straight his story (he draws on Susan Sontag's book, Illness as Metaphor) of alcohol dependency, of the stages of grief after receiving the diagnosis (referring to Kubler Ross) and of his work to promote research through the work of the Michael J Fox Foundation. …