The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in the 19th-century and examines the conditions determining its particular makeup. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in the 19th-century and examines the conditions determining its particular makeup. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early 19th-century, showing that the emerging categories of the normal and the pathological were far from being objective scientific concepts. He demonstrates how the epistemological foundations of modern biology and medicine were intertwined with political, economic, and technological imperatives. Canguilhem was an important influence on the thought of Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, in particular for the way in which he poses the problem of how new domains of knowledge come into being and how they are part of a discontinuous history of human thought.

Can a book change your life? I read it at the high school on the advices of my professor of philosophy. At this time, I hesitated between medicine and philosophy. The little red book. Canguilhem, resistant to the Nazi, physician and philosopher. In short a model, a hero. He has given the aggregation of philosophy to Foucault.

It was a completed time or France had great thinkers. Philosopher and physician, he made the synthesis in this work which takes again its thesis of 1943. Canguilhem fights po Can a book change your life? I read it at the high school on the advices of my professor of philosophy. Apartheid 1 0 Lxde I686 Isotonic there. At this time, I hesitated between medicine and philosophy. The little red book.

Canguilhem, resistant to the Nazi, physician and philosopher. In short a model, a hero. He has given the aggregation of philosophy to Foucault. It was a completed time or France had great thinkers. Philosopher and physician, he made the synthesis in this work which takes again its thesis of 1943. Canguilhem fights positivism very present in medicine as in Claude Bernard for example. For him, the pathological status is defined like a quantitative variation compared to the normality.