The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
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Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years... Google Books
Originally published: 1999
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This collection of essays explores not only Percy's connections to medicine but also the underappreciated impact his art has had—and can have—on medicine itself ...
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Walker Percy had a lifelong preoccupation with his family's history of depression and with medicine, his first choice of profession. His writing also explored ...
This collection of essays explores not only Percy's connections to medicine but also the underappreciated impact his art has had—and can have—on medicine itself ...
Feb 2, 2000 · There is more literary allusion than literal accuracy in the title The Last Physician, which harks back to that of Walker Percy's second ...
A feminist critique of Percy's development of women characters, reflections on physician characters in Percy's work, his personal struggle with a family history ...
Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis ...
Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine ... Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia ...
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This collection of essays explores not only Percy's connections to medicine but also the underappreciated impact his art has had—and can have—on medicine itself ...
Collection of essays on the connection between medicine and literature and how novelists and physicians are both, in a sense, diagnosticians; the book focuses, ...