The Normal and the Pathological

Canguilhem, Georges; Foucault, Michel (Intro.)

ISBN 10: 0942299590 / ISBN 13: 9780942299595

Verlag: Zone Books, New York, 1991

Paperback. 9" X 6". 327pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Edges of wraps have been reinforced with clear tape. Stamp to front endpaper. Small price sticker to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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.(Publisher). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11553

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Normal and the Pathological
Verlag: Zone Books, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good +