Jeffrey Paul Bishop (born 1967) is a philosopher,

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, author and the ''Tenet Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics'' at Saint Louis University. The director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to death and dying in addition to contributions in the field of

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. Bishop is a physician, holds a

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from the

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and serves on the editorial boards of both the ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy'' and the ''Journal of Christian Bioethics'' for

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Biography

Bishop grew up in Texas and graduated as a Medical Doctor from the University of Texas Medical School Houston and a Doctor of Philosophy from the

, before joining the faculty of the

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in 1996. He was the principal lecturer on ''Medical Ethics and Law'' at the

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of the

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and

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in the United Kingdom and later directed the ''Clinical Ethics Education and Consultation Services'' at

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. Bishop also held the position of '' Associate Professor of Theological Ethics'' and an active hospitalist at

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before assuming the directorship of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics in July 2010. Bishop contributes regularly to numerous journals as well as the

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"Religion and Ethics" page. He has edited several special edition journals for ''Christian Bioethics'' and the ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy'' for which he sits on the editorial board and is the assistant editor of the ''Philosophy and Medicine" series,

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and on the editorial advisory board of ''Medicine Studies''. Bishop is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the American Academy of Religion. Bishop's scholarly work explores the historical, social, political, and philosophical conditions that underpin contemporary medical and scientific practices and theories. Bishop's first book is ''The Anticipatory Corpse:Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying'' which explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. It is published by Notre Dame Press.

Publications

Books

* "The Anticipitory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying", Notre Dame Press

Selected articles

* "Of Life Worlds and Health Savings Accounts: Toward a Familial Philosophy of Health Care Financing", ''Medicine and Philosophy'' (A Chinese Journal of Medicine and Philosophy) (2012) * "Science, Virtue, and the Birth of Modernity, or On the Techno-Theo-Logic of Modern Neuroscience", ''The Science of Modern Virtue'' (2012) * "The Roman Catholic Church, Biopolitics, and the Vegetative State" with Daniel R.Morrison,

(2011) * "Life, Death (Panels), and the Body Politic" with Joshua E. Perry, Syracuse Law Review (2010) * "Transhumanism, Metaphysics, and the Posthuman God", Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2010) * "Echo Calling Narcissus: What Exceeds the Gaze of Clinical Ethics Consultation?" with Joseph B. Fanning and Mark J. Bliton ''HEC Forum'' (2010) * "Reviving the conversation around CPR/DNR:Â Have the policies outlived their utility", American Journal of Bioethics (2010) * "Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine and Other Political Schemes" ''The Journal of Christian Bioethics''

. * "Foucauldian Diagnostics: Space, Time, and the Metaphysics of Medicine", ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy''

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(2009) * "Rejecting Medical Humanism: Medical Humanities and the Metaphysics of Medicine", Journal of Medical Humanities (2008) * "Biopolitics, Terri Schiavo, and the Sovereign Subject of Death", ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy''

(2008) * "Ethics, Justification and the Prevention of Spina Bifida" with Wendy Jane Gagen,

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(2007) * "Bioethics as biopolitics" with Fabrice Jotterand, ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy''

(2006) * "Framing euthanasia",

(2006) * "Euthanasia, efficiency, and the historical distinction between killing a patient and allowing a patient to die",

, (2006) * "Retroactive prayer: Lots of History, Not much mystery and No Science" with

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, British Medical Journal (2004) * "Modern Liberalism, Female Circumcision and the Rationality of Traditions", ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy'' Oxford Journals (2004) * "Prayer, Science and the Moral Life of Medicine",

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(2003)

References

External links

Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop Website

Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

American Academy of Religion

Social Science Research Network
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