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The last physician : Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine
- Title
- The last physician : Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine / edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos.
- Publication
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 99-14910 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- vii, 167 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 > Criticism and interpretation
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 > Knowledge > Medicine
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 > Ethics
- Literature and mental illness > United States > History > 20th century
- Literature and medicine > United States > History > 20th century
- Physicians' writings, American > History and criticism
- Medicine in literature
- Ethics in literature
- Medical ethics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Dr. Percy's hold on medicine / Robert Coles -- The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Ross McElwee -- Why doctors make good protagonists / John Lantos -- From eye to ear in Percy fiction: changing the paradigm for clinical medicine / Martha Montello -- Prozac and the existential novel: two therapies / Carl Elliott -- Ethics in the ruins / David Schiedermayer -- Walker Percy and medicine: the struggle for recovery in medical education / Richard Martinez -- Now you are one of us: gender, reversal, and the good read / Laurie Zoloth -- Inherited depression, medicine, and illness in Walker Percy's art / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Pathology rounds with Dr. Percy: the modern malaise, its causes and cure / Brock Eide -- Walker Percy, reluctant physician / Jay Toolson -- Afterword: writing and rewriting stories / John Lantos.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-14910
- ISBN
- 0822323362 (alk. paper)
- 0822323699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99014158
- OCLC
- 40813329
- Title
- The last physician : Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine / edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos.
- Imprint
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Elliott, Carl, 1961-Lantos, John D.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-14910