The Normal and the Pathological - Brossura

Canguilhem, Georges

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ISBN 10: 0942299590 ISBN 13: 9780942299595

Casa editrice: Zone Books, 1991

Riassunto

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.

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Book by Canguilhem Georges

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Zone Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0942299590
• ISBN 13: 9780942299595
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile