released 4/24/2020
Medicine — as a set of practices and institutions — is a function of a larger cultural history. Jeffrey Bishop, the author of The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, talks with Ken Myers about how modern Western medicine is intertwined with politics and technology within a vision of progress that has an eschatological quality to it. In this interview, Bishop also reflects on how the practices of the anatomy lab shape our understanding of the body in unhelpful and unrealistic ways.
25 minutes
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