Home>Faculty>Faculty Detail

Jeffrey P. Bishop

.
.
Photo of Jeffrey P. Bishop

Associate Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Ethics, Vanderbilt University .Adjunct Professor of Law

Voice: 615-936-3869
Email: jeffrey.bishop@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 319 Oxford House 4550
View curriculum vitae (.pdf)
Personal Website

Research Interest(s)

Bioethics; philosophy of medicine

Education

M.D. University of Texas Houston, B.A. University of Texas, B.S. Institute of Christian Studies

Biography

Jeffrey Bishop is an internist who writes about medical philosophy and ethics. He is affiliated with Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, he was a Principal Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry of the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth in the United Kingdom. He has also served as an associate professor of internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he was interim director of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine. He served on the Ethics Committee for Parkland Health and Hospital Systems from 1996 to 2005, when he moved to the U.K. After earning his M.D. at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, he completed in residency in internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He holds an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Dallas, where he is a Ph.D. candidate.

Representative Publications

Articles

  • “Fides Ancilla Medicinae: On the Ersatz Liturgy of Death in Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine,” 49 Heythrop Journal 20 (2008)

  • “Foucauldian Diagnostics: Space, Time, and the Metaphysics of Medicine," 34 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 4 (2009)

  • “On Policing with Procedures: Moral Inquiry or Moral Hegemony?” HEC Forum (forthcoming 2009) (with Joseph B. Fanning & Mark J. Bliton)

  • “Revisiting Foucault,” 34 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2009)

  • “Reviving the Conversation around CPR/DNR: Have the Policies Outlived Their Utility?” American Journal of Bioethics (forthcoming) (with Kyle Brothers, Joshua Perry & Ayesha Ahmad)

  • “Bioethics, Biopolitics, and the Sovereign Subject of Death,” 33 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 338 (2008)

  • “Rejecting Medical Humanism,” 29 Journal of Medical Humanities 15 (2008)

  •  “Ethics, Justification and the Prevention of Spina Bifida,” 33 Journal of Medical Ethics 501 (2007) (with Wendy Jane Gagen)

  • “Bioethics as Biopolitics," 31 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 205 (2006) (with Fabrice Jotterand)

  • “Framing Euthanasia,” 32 Journal of Medical Ethics 225 (April 2006)



Some links on this page require the Adobe Acrobat Reader.