The Normal and the Pathological by Canguilhem, Georges
The Normal and the Pathological by Canguilhem, Georges

The Normal and the Pathological

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in...
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Author: Georges Canguilhem
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $43.20
The Normal and the Pathological by Canguilhem, Georges

The Normal and the Pathological

$43.20
The Normal and the Pathological by Canguilhem, Georges

The Normal and the Pathological

$43.20
Author: Georges Canguilhem
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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 nineteenth 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 nineteenth century, showing that the emerging categories of the normal and the pathological were far from 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, among others, 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.

Author: Georges Canguilhem
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 12/16/1991
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780942299595
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Canguilhem, Georges: - Georges Canguilhem is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and former director of the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Université de Paris. His works include La Connaissance de la Vie, Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, and The Normal and the Pathological.
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