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Writings on Medicine (Hardcover)
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Writings on Medicine (Hardcover)
Series: Forms of Living
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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 Michel Foucault, 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 the
Hippocratic understanding of nature, the experience of disease, the
limits of psychology in medicine, myths and realities of
therapeutic practices, the difference between cure and healing, the
organism's self-regulation, and medical metaphors linking the
organism to society. Writings on Medicine is at once an excellent
introduction to Canguilhem's work and a forceful, insightful, and
accessible engagement with elemental concepts in medicine. The book
is certain to leave its imprint on anthropology, history,
philosophy, bioethics, and the social studies of medicine.
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