The Last Physician

Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Herausgeber: Elliott, Carl

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""The Last Physician "offers the pleasure of Walker Percy's companionship in leading an examined life. The authors talk with and through Percy's characters about medicine, about art and suffering, and about how their lives became richer as they acknowledge their share of the world's troubles."--Arthur W. Frank, author of "At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness and the Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 149mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323693
• ISBN-10: 0822323699
• Artikelnr.: 22378329

Autorenporträt

Carl Elliott and John Lantos, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction/ Carl Elliot 1
Dr. Percy's Hold on Medicine/ Robert Coles 9
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes/ Ross McElwee 16
Why Doctors Make Good Protagonists/ John Lantos 38
From Eye to Ear in Percy's Fiction: Changing the Paradigm for Clinical
Medicine/ Martha Montello 46
Prozac and the Existential Novel: Two Therapies/ Carl Elliot 59
Ethics in the Ruins/ David Schiedermayer 70
Walker Percy and Medicine: The Struggle for Recovery in Medical Education/
Richard Martinez 81
Now You are One of Us: Gender, Reversal, and the Good Read/ Laurie Zoloth
96
Inherited Depression, Medicine, and Illness in Walker Percy's Art/ Bertram
Wyatt-Brown 112
Pathology Rounds with Dr. Percy: The Modern Malaise, Its Causes and Cure
Brock Eide 134
Walker Percy, Reluctant Physician/ Jay Tolson 150
Afterword: Writing and Rewriting Stories/ John Lantos 160
Contributors 163
Index 165