@article{434239,
      recid = {434239},
      author = {Bishop, Jeffrey Paul.},
      title = {The anticipatory corpse : medicine, power, and the care of  the dying /},
      publisher = {University of Notre Dame Press,},
      address = {Notre Dame, Ind. :},
      pages = {xv, 411 p. ;},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop,  a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that  something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by  contemporary medicine and in our social and political views  of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing  debates about euthanasia and the "right to die"--or to  live._The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the  Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault's genealogy of  medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of  current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a  view of people as machines in motion--people as, in effect,  temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable  parts--has become epistemologically normative for medicine.  The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of  exercising control over the suffering person, whether  through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or  through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of  psychological and spiritual "medicine."The result is a kind  of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling  contradictions and absurdities in our practices.  Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in  the United States, to ICU medicine, to_"spiritual surveys,"  to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define  death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo's,  The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political,  and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying  and, finally, the possibilities of change. A  ground-breaking work in bioethics, this book will provoke  thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine,  philosophy, theology, and health policy."With extraordinary  philosophical sophistication as well as knowledge of modern  medicine, Bishop argues that the body that shapes the work  of modern medicine is a dead body. He defends this claim  decisively with with urgency. I know of no book that is at  once more challenging and informative as The Anticipatory  Corpse. To say this book is the most important one written  in the philosophy of medicine in the last twenty-five years  would not do it justice. This book is destined to change  the way we think and, hopefully, practice medicine."  -Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School "Jeffrey Bishop  carefully builds a detailed, scholarly case that medicine  is shaped by its attitudes toward death. Clinicians,  ethicists, medical educators, policy makers, and  administrators need to understand the fraught relationship  between clinical practices and death, and The Anticipatory  Corpse is an essential text. Bishop's use of the writings  of Michel Foucault is especially provocative and  significant. This book is the closest we have to a  genealogy of death." Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary  "Jeffrey Bishop has produced a masterful study of how the  living body has been placed within medicine's metaphysics  of efficient causality and within its commitment to a  totalizing control of life and death, which control has  only been strengthened by medicine's taking on the mantle  of a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model. This volume's  treatment of medicine's care of the dying will surely be  recognized as a cardinal text in the philosophy of  medicine." H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Rice University,  Baylor College of Medicine"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434239},
}