Canguilhem (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

✍ Scribed by Stuart Elden

Publisher: Polity Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 227
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Series page......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Abbreviations for Works by Georges Canguilhem......Page 9
Archival Material......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Life and career......Page 13
Oeuvres complètes, English translations and secondary literature......Page 20
2: The Normal and the Pathological......Page 24
The sciences of the normal and pathological......Page 25
The milieu......Page 30
Norm and average......Page 32
Disease, cure, health......Page 35
A history of the problem......Page 37
New reflections......Page 41
‘Aspects of Vitalism’......Page 45
‘Machine and Organism’......Page 53
‘The Living and its Milieu’......Page 60
4: Physiology and the Reflex......Page 69
Claude Bernard and experimentation in animal biology......Page 72
The formation of the concept of reflex......Page 78
Physiology as science......Page 87
The problem of regulation......Page 90
‘What is Psychology?’......Page 100
The brain and thought......Page 103
From development to evolution......Page 107
Monstrosity and the monstrous......Page 115
Jean Cavaillès......Page 121
Gaston Bachelard......Page 123
The history of sciences......Page 127
Epistemology and the history of concepts......Page 130
Scientific ideology......Page 135
8: Writings on Medicine......Page 144
Health......Page 148
Healing and the role of the doctor......Page 152
Diseases......Page 155
Bacteriology and medical theory......Page 159
‘Textes et documents philosophiques’ and the ‘Galien’ series......Page 166
Canguilhem, Foucault and biology......Page 169
François Delaporte......Page 170
Timeline......Page 176
1 Foundations......Page 179
2 The Normal and the Pathological......Page 186
3 Philosophy of Biology......Page 187
4 Physiology and the Reflex......Page 191
5 Regulation and Psychology......Page 193
6 Evolution and Monstrosity......Page 196
7 Philosophy of History......Page 198
8 Writings on Medicine......Page 203
9 Legacies......Page 206
Index......Page 211
EULA......Page 227

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