The anticipatory corpse : medicine, power, and the care of the dying / Jeffrey P. Bishop.

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2011], ©2011.

xv, 411 pages ; 23 cm.

Birthing the clinic -- Maturing the clinic -- Transition one -- The machinations of life -- Embracing death -- Commissioning death : from living cadavers to dead brains -- The exact location of death : from brain to sovereign -- The sovereign subject and death -- Transition two -- The discursive turn -- The palliating gaze -- Recapitulation -- Anticipating life.

Includes bibliographical references and index.