The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying

by Jeffrey P. Bishop

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268022275
• ISBN13: 9780268022273
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"