{"product_id":"writings-on-medicine-9780823234325","title":"Writings on Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritings on Medicine \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Canguilhem (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Trained in philosophy and medicine, Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) remains one of France's most influential philosophers of science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefanos Geroulanos (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stefanos Geroulanos is Assistant Professor of Modern European Intellectual History at New York University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e An Atheism That Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought \u003c\/i\u003eand the co-translator of Georges Canguilhem's \u003ci\u003eKnowledge of Life \u003c\/i\u003e(Fordham). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTodd Meyers (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University-Shanghai. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328970101010,"sku":"9780823234325","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ed1405bb-ff71-4716-9cbf-613dd1d7f2b4.jpg?v=1727756037","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/writings-on-medicine-9780823234325","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}