Jeffrey P. Bishop is Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics and director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University.
“The book’s interdisciplinary nature, along with its careful
analyses combined with concrete stories of real human struggles
with death and dying, no doubt, will be of interest to those
engaged in medicine, bioethics, philosophy, theology, and debates
concerning public health policies; but all those interested in the
place of the body in modern technoscientific culture will find it
engaging and cogent.” —Per Caritatem
". . . this book will prove to be a seminal, conversation-changing
monograph especially in bioethics and philosophy of medicine. . . .
It will challenge the fundamental presuppositions that structure
most courses in bioethics or death and dying. It is certainly a
must-read for scholars and graduate students in these fields, but
with guidance, it is an accessible and important text to use with
undergraduates interested in bioethics or theology and medicine as
well." —Modern Theology
"This is a genuinely novel approach that invites one to completely
reassess why healthcare institutions and professionals function as
they do. It also invites us to question how our lives are shaped by
our anticipated deaths. . . . This is not an easy book, but it is
worth devoting time to reading it and thinking about the questions
it poses. It is beautifully written and carefully argued, and
instead of shying away from difficult and potentially disruptive
issues in modern medicine it exposes them and challenges us to
think again." —Times Higher Education
“In this evocatively titled book, physician Bishop joins his
Catholic sensibility with a Foucaldian analysis of medicine and
power to expose the ambiguities and complexities of contemporary
end-of-life issues. . . . Bishop examines issues such as how the
need for donated organs since the 1950s has shaped care of the
dying in troubling ways, the contesting passions surrounding the
Terri Schiavo case, and the trivialization of the religious lives
of caregivers and dying patients as wrought by the
professionalization of palliative care.” —Library Journal
"The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the
Dying [is] a compelling read and a groundbreaking work in
philosophy and bioethics. Written by physician, bioethicist, and
philosopher Jeffrey P. Bishop, the book presents an eloquent
argument as to how the profession’s care of dying persons has
evolved as well as a provocative and insightful critique of the
present state of such care. . . . The Anticipatory Corpse . . . is
engaging, provocative, and difficult to put down. . . . For
physicians, lawyers, philosophers, chaplains, nurses, and other
professionals whose work is centered on life’s final chapter, I
wholeheartedly recommend this book." —Journal of the American
Medical Association
“Jeffrey Bishop . . . takes the reader on a journey into the past
to provide insight into how the dead body plays an integral and
unrecognized role in the present state of medicine in his book . .
. . He argues that the corpse is the end of the practice of
medicine.” —Journal of Medical Humanities
“It is hard to overestimate the importance of Bishop’s book, not
least because of the unchallenged, well-nigh hegemonic place
occupied by medicine in western culture . . . . The theological
acuteness and pastoral warmth that flow through Jeffrey Bishop’s
book make it the most compelling argument for the superiority of
this type of humane medicine over the ubiquitous and utterly
flaccid ‘biopsychosociospiritual’ pretensions of modern medical
practice. But as a challenge to the story of western liberalism,
and the central place of medicine within it, The Anticipatory
Corpse is also the most important book of 2011.” —ABC Religion and
Ethics
“The Anticipatory Corpse is interesting, provocative and
important—one of the most novel contributions to the field of
bioethics of the last several decades. Bishop has many illuminating
new things to say about the ethics of medical care for the dying.
In the process, he helps to explain why bioethics itself is in such
a sad state.” —America
"In this brilliant book, Jeffrey Bishop, who is both a physician
and a philosopher, turns his clinical and analytical gaze on
medicine. His diagnosis is bleak: 'There is something rotten in the
heart of medicine.' Nine of the ten chapters are devoted to the
diagnosis, showing the source and history of the disease and some
of its symptoms, always focusing on how medicine approaches death
and care for the dying. . . . In the last chapter, he turns his
attention to therapeutic possibilities for medicine and raises a
series of provocative questions, the most provocative of which is
the last line of his book: Might it not be that only theology can
save medicine?" —The Christian Century
“The Anticipatory Corpse has the potential to become a classic in
the field of medicine. . . . Bishop’s critique of contemporary
medical practices and the fundamental philosophical questions
underlying them are a stark reminder that the practices of
medicine—many of them very good indeed—should not become ends in
themselves.” —Ethics and Medicine
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