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 …

This article explores Foucault's two different notions of power: one where the subject is
constituted by power–knowledge relations and another that emphasizes how power is a …

In the mid-1970s, the biomedical model of medicine gave way to the biopsychosocial model
of medicine; it was billed as a more comprehensive and compassionate model of medicine …

This essay explores the claim that bioethics has become a mode of biopolitics. It seeks to
illuminate one of the myriad of ways that bioethics joins other institutionalized discursive …

This essay examines the case of Terri Schiavo to develop a theory of prosopopeic
democratic citizenship. Prosopopeia—the tropological attribution of voice—rhetorically …

This essay places Foucault's work into a philosophical context, recognizing that Foucault is
difficult to place and demonstrates that Foucault remains in the Kantian tradition of …

1. I foreground a certain kind of (interpellative) identity politics here; one that Signs and
Wonders explicitly refuses. In what follows, I attend not only to (white) feminist and queer …

With the increased costs of health care, hospitals have put increased pressure on chaplains
to show efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, with the drive of evidence-based medicine …

The present paper argues that late work of Michel Foucault is helpful in understanding
contemporary bioethics. Specifically, Foucault's writings on biopower and subjectivity are …

This book analyses the relationship between law and violence, the utility of law over
violence and whether legality as an approach has an inherent disability in addressing mass …