Of Medicine & Metaphor: Significant Findings from Walker Percy

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For support which made this study possible, I must thank the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Professor James Childress, who directed a memorable NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on “Metaphors and Principles in Biomedical Ethics,” at the University of Virginia in 1986.