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A vital rationalist : selected writings from Georges Canguilhem
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A vital rationalist : selected writings from Georges Canguilhem

Author: Georges Canguilhem; Franc̜ois Delaporte
Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 1994.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Georges Canguilhem; Georges Canguilhem
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Georges Canguilhem; Franc̜ois Delaporte
ISBN: 0942299728 9780942299724
OCLC Number: 28215722
Description: 481 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The history of science -- The various models -- The history of the history of science -- Epistemology of biology -- Epistemology of physiology : A baroque physiology ; An experimental science ; The major problems of nineteenth-century physiology -- Epistemology of medicine : The limits of healing ; The new situation of medicine ; A medical revolution -- Cell theory -- The concept of reflex -- Biological objects -- René Descartes -- Auguste Comte -- Claude Bernard -- Knowledge and the living : Science and life ; The concept of life -- The normal and the pathological : Introduction to the problem ; The identity of the two states ; Implications and counterpositions -- Normality and normativity.
Responsibility: edited by Franc̜ois Delaporte ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer with an introduction by Paul Rabinow and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges.

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