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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Other Authors: Lantos, John D. (Editor), Elliott, Carl, 1961- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Criticism and interpretation.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Knowledge > Medicine.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Ethics.
Physicians' writings, American.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine.
Medical ethics.
Literature and mental illness.
Literature and medicine.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
mental disorders.
authorship.
Maladies mentales.
Art d'ecrire.
Éthique medicale.
Morale dans la litterature.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Litterature et medecine > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature et maladies mentales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Ethics, Medical
Mental Disorders
Authorship
Medicine in Literature
Mental illness.
Authorship.
Physicians' writings, American > History and criticism.
Literature and medicine > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and mental illness > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 Tolson
  • Afterword: writing and rewriting stories / John Lantos.

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