Bibliograph

The last physician, Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine, edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos

Type

Label

The last physician, Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine, edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last physician

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40813329

Responsibility statement

edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos

Sub title

Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine

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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