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

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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 by our scientific successes and ongoing debate...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bishop, Jeffrey Paul
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Ethics, Clinical > United States.
Terminal Care > ethics > United States.
Attitude to Death > United States.
Thanatology > United States.
Medical ethics > United States.
Medical ethics.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Birthing the clinic
  • Maturing the clinic
  • Transition one
  • The machinations of life
  • Embracing death
  • Commissioning death : from living cadavers to dead brains
  • The exact location of death : from brain to sovereign
  • The sovereign subject and death
  • Transition two
  • The discursive turn
  • The palliating gaze
  • Recapitulation
  • Anticipating life.

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