The last physician : Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine

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

Other author/creator	Elliott, Carl, 1961-
Other author/creator	Lantos, John D.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
Description	vii, 167 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation. Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Knowledge --Medicine. Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Ethics. Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. 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. Medicine in literature--Personal narratives. Authorship--Personal narratives. Mental Disorders--Personal Narratives.

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.
Local note	Little-327280--305131024503R
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection.
LCCN	99014158
ISBN	0822323362 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0822323699 (pbk. : alk. paper)