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" The last physician : "
edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos
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BL
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637312
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The last physician : : Walker Percy and the moral life of medicine /\ edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos
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Durham [N.C.] :: Duke University Press,, 1999
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vii, 167 p. ;; 24 cm
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0822323362
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: 0822323699
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 Toolson -- 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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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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PS3566.E6912Z738 1999
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Elliott, Carl,1961-
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Lantos, John D
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