|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying
|
Buy Now
The Anticipatory Corpse - Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,017
Discovery Miles 30 170
You Save: R2,636
(47%)
|
|
|
The Anticipatory Corpse - Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Hardcover)
Series: Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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 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. This book is a ground-breaking work in
bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those
engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
