The Last Physician : Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine /

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Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collectio...

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Otros Autores: Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (Contribuidor), Eide, Brock (Contribuidor), Elliott, Carl (Contribuidor, Editor ), Schiedermayer, David (Contribuidor), Tolson, Jay (Contribuidor), Lantos, John (Contribuidor, Editor ), Zoloth, Laurie (Contribuidor), Montello, Martha (Contribuidor), Martinez, Richard (Contribuidor), Coles, Robert (Contribuidor), McElwee, Ross (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [1999]
Temas:
Ethics in literature.
Literature and medicine > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and mental illness > United States > History > 20th century.
Medical ethics.
Medicine in literature.
Physicians' writings, American > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Dr. Percy's Hold on Medicine
  • The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  • Why Doctors Make Good Protagonists
  • From Eye to Ear in Percy's Fiction: Changing the Paradigm for Clinical Medicine
  • Prozac and the Existential Novel: Two Therapies
  • Ethics in the Ruins
  • Walker Percy and Medicine The Struggle for Recovery in Medical Education
  • Now You Are One of Us: Gender, Reversal, and the Good Read
  • Inherited Depression, Medicine, and Illness in Walker Percy's Art
  • Pathology Rounds with Dr. Percy: The Modern Malaise, Its Causes and Cure
  • Walker Percy, Reluctant Physician
  • Afterword: Writing and Rewriting Stories
  • Contributors
  • Index

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