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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elliott, Carl, 1961- (Editor ), Lantos, John D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Criticism and interpretation.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Knowledge > Medicine.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Ethics.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990.
1900-1999
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.
Authorship.
Mental illness.
Medicine in Literature
Authorship
Mental Disorders
Ethics, Medical
Littérature et maladies mentales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et médecine > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Morale dans la littérature.
Éthique médicale.
Art d'écrire.
Maladies mentales.
authorship.
mental disorders.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Ethics.
Literature and medicine.
Literature and mental illness.
Medicine.
Physicians' writings, American.
United States.
Personal narratives.
Personal Narrative
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Récits personnels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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