Description:
Bishop 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.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"The Anticipatory Corpse provides a rich set of philosophical, theological, and medical insights into end-of-life care, which continues to cry out for more humane ways of addressing the needs of patients and their families." --The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly