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 Welcome to the online home of the work of Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop: author, philosopher and physician
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Dr.Jeffrey P. Bishop is a social and moral philosopher, teaching medical ethics and philosophy at Saint Louis University.  He is also a physician. Prof. Bishop holds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics and is the Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. 

This website provides access to a range of information about his work including academic publications, talks, op-eds, editorial work, current projects, the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, "the anticipatory corpse" and reviews. 

Bishop's scholarly work is focused on the historical, political, and philosophical conditions that underpin contemporary medical and scientific practices and theories.  His interests are diverse, with publications in medical journals, philosophical journals, theological journals, and medical humanities journals. He has also written on diverse topics from transhumanism and enhancement technologies to clinical ethics consultation and medical humanities.

His first book, The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, is a philosophical history of the Care of the dying, from ICU care to palliative care. He is working on a second book with colleagues M. Therese Lysaught and Andrew Michel tentatively titled, 'Chasing After Virtue: Neuroscience, Economics, and the Biopolitics of Morality'. Lately, his scholarship has been focused on the body, exploring how medical and scientific conceptions of the body shape the kinds of moral claims made by medicine, science, and bioethics.

A passionate teacher, Bishop teaches regularly in the PhD program in health care ethics. He has also taught undergraduate courses in medical ethics, philosophy of medicine, and the body in medical culture. He serves as the primary superviser of doctoral dissertations and frequently serves as second or third reader on dissertation committees. He enjoys mentoring students, and assisting students in developing their own scholarly voices.

Bishop also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and Christian Bioethics, and he is an assistant editor of the Philosophy and Medicine Series, published by Springer.
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In his words...

"I am interested in the way things and ideas fit together, and the unspoken assumptions that participate in how we think about things and ideas. For example,  I am interested in the way that we arrange our social responses to illness. Could we not have arranged it otherwise? I want to discover the implicit beliefs about the body, for instance, such that we can decide to treat the body in the way that we do. I am interested in the assumptions that are at the heart of the things and institutions that we think are most stable. I am interested in the way that historical and political contingencies participate in our thinking about things that we think are stable in our practices and our theories. Those social arrangements and beliefs are rarely on the the surface, and they are far from clear. I am interested in the way that things are influenced by what we think we know can about those things. I see my role as unpacking those social arrangements, those beliefs, those assumptions, historical and political contingencies that animate our theories and practices in medicine and science, and in the popular culture about medicine and science.

At the heart of my work is a concern for people, and a concern for the kinds of hopes that medicine and science put forward for people. My niche is that I have practiced medicine, and I have been the one who has given hope to people, but I am also the one who realizes that those hopes and those practices that we offer to people can cut and harm in unintended ways."