Writings on Medicine

Name: Writings on Medicine
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ISBN: 9780823234325

ISBN-10: 0823234320

ISBN-13: 9780823234325

Edition: 2012

Authors: Georges Canguilhem, Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd Meyers

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At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought, and the conceptual history of biology had marked the thought of philosophers such as MichelFoucault, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, and Gilles Deleuze. This collection of short, incisive, and highly accessible essays on the major concepts of modern medicine shows Canguilhem at the peak of his use of historical practice for philosophical engagement. In order to elaborate a philosophy of medicine, Canguilhem examines paramount problems such as the definition and uses of health, the decline of…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 116
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Georges Canguilhem's Critique of Medical Reason




The Idea of Nature in Medical Theory and Practice



Diseases



Health: Popular Concept and Philosophical Question



Is a Pedagogy of Healing Possible?



The Problem of Regulation in the Organism and in Society


Notes


Index