The Last Physician – Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Autor Carl Elliott, John Lantosen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 1999
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822323693
ISBN-10: 0822323699
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822323699
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Notă biografică
Recenzii
"For Walker Percy's fans and for readers who are just discovering his work, The Last Physician provides an explanation for why his stories were so seminal in the maturation of many an adult and many an aspiring physician. The issues he wrestled with in his fiction-isolation, ambivalence, alienation-are just as important in today's society. The Last Physician is proof that Walker Percy's work will endure, will continue to stimulate discussion, and will continue to inspire generations to come." -Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of friendship and Loss "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
Cuprins
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
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
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""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"