{"product_id":"the-normal-and-the-pathological-9780942299595","title":"The Normal and the Pathological","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Normal and the Pathological\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCanguilhem 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCanguilhem 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanguilhem, Georges:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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 \u003ci\u003eLa Connaissance de la Vie, Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Normal and the Pathological.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629243896082,"sku":"9780942299595","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d13711cd-234f-4051-a145-d8d043991c20.jpg?v=1732725516","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-normal-and-the-pathological-9780942299595","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}