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Writings on Medicine de Georges Canguilhem

Writings on Medicine: Forms of Living

Autor Georges Canguilhem, Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd Meyers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2012

Considerăm că înțelegerea actului medical depășește simpla aplicare a unor protocoale, iar Writings on Medicine demonstrează acest lucru prin analiza distincției fundamentale dintre „a trata” (cure) și „a vindeca” (healing). Această colecție de eseuri scurte și incisive ne propune o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care percepem sănătatea nu doar ca absență a bolii, ci ca o experiență umană complexă, legată de autoreglarea organismului și de metaforele care unesc biologia de viața socială. Apreciem în mod deosebit modul în care Georges Canguilhem demontează miturile practicilor terapeutice moderne, explorând în același timp declinul tradiției hipocratice.

Stilul este unul direct și surprinzător de accesibil pentru un filosof de calibrul său, oferind cititorului o claritate rară asupra limitelor psihologiei în context medical. Această lucrare se plasează pe aceeași linie cu Knowledge of Life, dar cu un accent sporit pe aplicabilitatea practică a conceptelor în bioetică și antropologia medicală, fiind mai puțin densă teoretic și mai ancorată în realitatea clinică. Dacă în lucrarea sa fundamentală, The Normal and the Pathological, autorul se concentra pe apariția biologiei ca știință în secolul al XIX-lea, volumul de față acționează ca un complement vital, rafinând aceste idei pentru contextul contemporan.

Credem că forța acestor scrieri rezidă în capacitatea de a transforma istoria științei într-un instrument de reflecție filosofică activă. Este o poartă de intrare ideală în universul autorului, oferind coordonatele necesare pentru a înțelege de ce gândirea sa a rămas un punct de referință pentru figuri precum Foucault sau Deleuze. Volumul reușește să rămână fidel rigorii academice, păstrând în același timp o fluență care îl face indispensabil oricărui cititor interesat de filozofia vieții.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823234325
ISBN-10: 0823234320
Pagini: 116
Dimensiuni: 193 x 231 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui profesionist din domeniul sănătății sau pasionat de filosofie care dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile conceptuale ale medicinei moderne. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care „sănătatea” este definită social și biologic, învățând să privească dincolo de diagnostic. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege intersecția dintre etică, istorie și practica medicală curentă, totul într-un format compact și ușor de parcurs.

Despre autor

Georges Canguilhem a fost profesor emerit la Sorbona și director al prestigiosului Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Université de Paris. Personalitate centrală a epistemologiei franceze, el a fost medic și filosof, o dublă formare care i-a permis să revoluționeze istoria științelor vieții. Printre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale se numără The Normal and the Pathological și A Vital Rationalist. Opera sa a exercitat o influență profundă asupra filosofiei postbelice, oferind un cadru critic pentru analizarea modului în care normele biologice și sociale interacționează.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Recenzii

Thanks to the translation and careful introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, this precious posthumoulsy edited collection of essays by Georges Canguilhem is now accessible to the English reader. Canguilhem's late writings on medicine form an important complement to his works on the history and epistemology of the life sciences as assembled in his Etudes and in his late work on Rationality and Ideology in the Life Sciences.Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
Celebrated as historian of the life sciences and epistemologist of the normal and the pathological, Georges Canguilhem, in this series of little known essays, proves also to be a critical observer of medicine and a reflexive analyst of the concept of health. One should be grateful to Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers for continuing their systematic translation of the often dispersed but coherent works of the French philosopher, whose influence on major contemporary thinkers and social scientists is increasingly acknowledged.-Didier Fassin
"Canguilhem's Writings on Medicine is a short book that every dean of every medical school and every school of public health should consider as required reading for their students. . . . It is the very best introduction available to Canguilhem's ideas--ideas that remain coordinates for navigating some of the most troubling questions in contemporary medicine. . . . If you like thinking about medicine as well as doing it, Canguilhem offers rich rewards."-Richard Horton, The Lancet
"If you like thinking about medicine as well as doing it, Canguilhem offers rich rewards." -The Lancet
"For those who want insight on science and philosophy in the field of medicine, "Writings on Medicine" is a strong addition to college library essay collections."-Midwest Book Review
"Such a collection will undoubtedly further Canguilhem scholarship and provide valuable contributions to various contemporary debates within the life sciences, from the relation between e

Thanks to the translation and careful introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, this precious posthumoulsy edited collection of essays by Georges Canguilhem is now accessible to the English reader. Canguilhem's late writings on medicine form an important complement to his works on the history and epistemology of the life sciences as assembled in his Etudes and in his late work on Rationality and Ideology in the Life Sciences.Hans-Jrg Rheinberger
Celebrated as historian of the life sciences and epistemologist of the normal and the pathological, Georges Canguilhem, in this series of little known essays, proves also to be a critical observer of medicine and a reflexive analyst of the concept of health. One should be grateful to Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers for continuing their systematic translation of the often dispersed but coherent works of the French philosopher, whose influence on major contemporary thinkers and social scientists is increasingly acknowledged.-Didier Fassin
The beauty of Canguilhem's definition of health-of normality-is that it includes the animate and inanimate environment, as well as the physical, mental, and social dimensions of human life. It puts the individual patient, not the doctor, in a position of self-determining authority to define his or her health needs. The doctor becomes a partner in delivering those needs. Canguilhem's definition is liberating. Adaptability frees us to be agile in the face of shifting forces that shape the wellbeing of individuals and populations. Canguilhem's definition also allows us to respond to disease globally, taking account of the context of conditions in a particular place, as well as time.-The Lancet
"George Canguilhem's 'Writings on Medicine' ... is a short book that every dean of every medical school and every school of public health should consider as required reading for their students."- Richard Horton, The Lancet

Thanks to the translation and careful introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, this precious posthumoulsy edited collection of essays by Georges Canguilhem is now accessible to the English reader. Canguilhem's late writings on medicine form an important complement to his works on the history and epistemology of the life sciences as assembled in his Etudes and in his late work on Rationality and Ideology in the Life Sciences.Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
Celebrated as historian of the life sciences and epistemologist of the normal and the pathological, Georges Canguilhem, in this series of little known essays, proves also to be a critical observer of medicine and a reflexive analyst of the concept of health. One should be grateful to Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers for continuing their systematic translation of the often dispersed but coherent works of the French philosopher, whose influence on major contemporary thinkers and social scientists is increasingly acknowledged.-Didier Fassin
"Canguilhem's Writings on Medicine is a short book that every dean of every medical school and every school of public health should consider as required reading for their students. . . . It is the very best introduction available to Canguilhem's ideas--ideas that remain coordinates for navigating some of the most troubling questions in contemporary medicine. . . . If you like thinking about medicine as well as doing it, Canguilhem offers rich rewards."-Richard Horton, The Lancet