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On the Normal and the Pathological
- G. Canguilhem
- Psychology
- 31 December 1978
Section I Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological (1943).- Preface to the Second Edition (1950).- One. Is the Pathological State Merely a Quantitative Modification of the… Expand
Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences
- G. Canguilhem
- Sociology
- 1988
Throughout his long career Canguilhem has been concerned with the way in which ideas originate and become transformed in scientific discourse, and with the role played by ideological factors in… Expand
The Living and Its Milieu
- G. Canguilhem
- Psychology
- Grey Room
- 1 March 2001
The notion of milieu is in the process of becoming a universal and obligatory means of registering the experience and existence of living things, and one could almost speak of its constitution as a… Expand
Monstrosity and the Monstrous
- G. Canguilhem, T. Jaeger
- Art
- 1 December 1962
we have been to see honeysuckle grow on honeysuckle vines, tadpoles become frogs, mares suckle colts, and in general to see like engender like. It is sufficient that this confidence be shaken once by… Expand
A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem
- G. Canguilhem, Franðcois Delaporte
- Art
- 1994
Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could… Expand
A Critical Examination of Certain Concepts: The Normal, Anomaly, and Disease; The Normal and the Experimental
- G. Canguilhem
- Philosophy
- 1978
Littre and Robin’s Dictionnaire de medecine defines the normal as follows: normal (normalis, from norma, rule): that which conforms to the rule, regular. The brevity of this entry in a medical… Expand
Physiology and Pathology
- G. Canguilhem
- Psychology
- 1978
As a consequence of the preceding analyses, it seems that a definition of physiology as the science of the laws or constants of normal life would not be strictly exact for two reasons: first, because… Expand
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