The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying by Jeffrey P. Bishop

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

Jeffrey P. Bishop

432 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction health philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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