The last physician: Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine

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: tw...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Elliott, Carl 1961- (MitwirkendeR), Lantos, John D. (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham, NC Duke University Press 1999
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Zusammenfassung: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 Tolson -- Afterword: writing and rewriting stories / John Lantos
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 167 pages)
ISBN:9780822398431
0822398435