PDF-(EBOOK)-Anticipatory Corpse, The: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Notre Dame

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 dieor to live br The Anticipatory Corpse Medicine Power and the Care of the Dyingbr informed by Foucaults 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 motionpeople as in effect temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable partshas 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 quasiscientific assessments of psychological and spiritual medicineThe result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices Wideranging 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 highprofile cases such as Terri Schiavos The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical political and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and finally the possibilities of change A groundbreaking work in bioethics this book will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine philosophy theology and health policyWith 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 twentyfive 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 Bishops 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 medicines metaphysics of efficient causality and within its commitment to a totalizing control of life and death which control has only been strengthened by medicines taking on the mantle of a biopsychosociospiritual model This volumes treatment of medicines 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. 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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\" Today\'s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of health care services for the sake of the patient\'s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange.Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient\'s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics. This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers, theologians, and educated Christian readers. Alexander R. Pruss focuses on foundational questions on the nature of romantic love and on controversial questions in sexual ethics on the basis of the fundamental idea that romantic love pursues union of two persons as one body.One Body begins with an account, inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas, of the general nature of love as constituted by components of goodwill, appreciation, and unitiveness. Different forms of love, such as parental, collegial, filial, friendly, fraternal, or romantic, Pruss argues, differ primarily not in terms of goodwill or appreciation but in terms of the kind of union that is sought. Pruss examines romantic love as distinguished from other kinds of love by a focus on a particular kind of union, a deep union as one body achieved through the joint biological striving of the sort involved in reproduction. Taking the account of the union that romantic love seeks as a foundation, the book considers the nature of marriage and applies its account to controversial ethical questions, such as the connection between love, sex, and commitment and the moral issues involving contraception, same-sex activity, and reproductive technology. With philosophical rigor and sophistication, Pruss provides carefully argued answers to controversial questions in Christian sexual ethics. This is a terrific—really quite extraordinary—work of scholarship. It is quite simply the best work on Christian sexual ethics that I have seen. It will become the text that anyone who ventures into the field will have to grapple with—a kind of touchstone. Moreover, it is filled with arguments with which even secular writers on sexual morality will have to engage and come to terms. —Robert P. George, Princeton University One Body is an excellent piece of philosophical-theological reflection on the nature of sexuality and marriage. This book has the potential to become a standard go-to text for professors and students working on sex ethics issues, whether in philosophy or theology, both for the richness of its arguments, and the scope of its coverage of cases. —Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina Alexander Pruss here develops sound and humane answers to the whole range of main questions about human sexual and reproductive choices. His principal argument for the key answers is very different from the one I have articulated over the past fifteen years. But his argumentation is at every point attractively direct, careful, energetic in framing and responding to objections, and admirably attentive to realities and the human goods at stake. —John Finnis, University of Oxford   The questions of whether there is a shared nature common to all human beings and, if so, what essential qualities define this nature are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain the subject of perennial interest and controversy. This book offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence-that is, with what is a human being identical or what types of parts are necessary for a human being to exist: an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? It also considers the criterion of identity for a human being across time and change-that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Jason Eberl\'s investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas\'s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. There are practical implications of exploring these theories as they inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence-at conception, during gestation, or after birth-and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. This book\'s central argument is that the Thomistic account of human nature includes several desirable features that other theories lack and offers a cohesive portrait of one\'s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond. Today\'s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of health care services for the sake of the patient\'s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange.Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient\'s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics.