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| Genre/Form: | Autobiography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Last physician. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607375193 |
| Named Person: | Walker Percy; Walker Percy; Walker Percy; Walker Percy; Walker Percy |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl Elliott; John D Lantos |
| ISBN: | 0822323362 9780822323365 0822323699 9780822323693 |
| OCLC Number: | 40813329 |
| Description: | vii, 167 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos. |
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