| Description |
vii, 167 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
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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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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.
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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Ethics.
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Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
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Literature and mental illness -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Physicians' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Medicine in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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Medical ethics.
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Medicine in Literature -- Personal Narratives.
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Authorship -- Personal Narratives.
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Mental Disorders -- Personal Narratives.
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| Added Author |
Elliott, Carl, 1961-
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Lantos, John D.
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| ISBN |
0822323362 alkaline paper |
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0822323699 paperback alkaline paper |
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