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Writings on Medicine .................18228$ $$FM 03-30-1209:43:37 PS PAGEi .................18228$ $$FM 03-30-1209:43:37 PS PAGEii .................18228$ $$FM 03-30-1209:43:43 PS PAGEiii .................18228$ $$FM 03-30-1209:43:43 PS PAGEiv Writings on Medicine Georges Canguilhem Translated, with an Introduction, by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers fordham university press new york 2012 .................18228$ $$FM 03-30-1209:43:44 PS PAGEv Copyright(cid:2)2012byFordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyany means—electronic,mechanical,photocopy,recording,orany other—exceptforbriefquotationsinprintedreviews,withoutthe priorpermissionofthepublisher. FordhamUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsites referredtointhispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatany contentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. FordhamUniversityPressalsopublishesitsbooksinavarietyof electronicformats.Somecontentthatappearsinprintmaynotbe availableinelectronicbooks. WritingsonMedicinewasfirstpublishedinFrenchasE´critssurla me´decine:(cid:2)PUF,1989,forthechapter‘‘Lesmaladies’’ (‘‘Diseases’’);(cid:2)Sables,1990,for‘‘Lasante´,conceptvulgaireet philosophique’’(‘‘Health:PopularConceptandPhilosophical Question’’);and(cid:2)E´ditionsduSeuil,2002,fortheremainingtexts andtheassemblyofthevolume. Thefirstquotationonthebackcoverofthisbookisreprintedfrom ‘‘WhatIsHealth?TheAbilitytoAdapt,’’TheLancet,vol.373,no. 9666(2009):781,copyright2009,withpermissionfromElsevier. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Canguilhem,Georges,1904-1995. [Ecritssurlame´decine.English] Writingsonmedicine/GeorgesCanguilhem;translatedand withanintroductionbyStefanosGeroulanosandTodd Meyers.—1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. )andindex. ISBN978-0-8232-3431-8(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-0-8232-3432-5(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Medicine—Philosophy. 2.Medicine—History. I.Title. R723.C36513 2012 610—dc23 2012009732 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 14 13 12 5 4 3 2 1 Firstedition .................18228$ $$FM 03-30-1209:43:45 PS PAGEvi contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction:GeorgesCanguilhem’sCritiqueofMedical Reason 1 byStefanosGeroulanosandToddMeyers 1. TheIdeaofNatureinMedicalTheoryandPractice 25 2. Diseases 34 3. Health:PopularConceptandPhilosophicalQuestion 43 4. IsaPedagogyofHealingPossible? 53 5. TheProblemofRegulationintheOrganismandinSociety 67 Notes 79 Index 101 vii .................18228$ CNTS 03-30-1209:43:41 PS PAGEvii .................18228$ CNTS 03-30-1209:43:41 PS PAGEviii acknowledgments WewouldliketoacknowledgetheundertakingassumedbyArmandZalos- zyc in organizing the original volume by E´ditions du Seuil. Thanks go to Warren Breckman, Michael Carhart, and Allan Megill for their editorial interventions to an earlier draft of the introduction and to Helen Tartar and Bud Bynack at Fordham University Press for their editorial work and support throughout. Henning Schmidgen’s German-language translation of three of the essays, Gesundheit—eine Frage der Philosophie, was a great resource.ClaudioLomnitz,theneditorofPublicCulture,wasgenerouswith bothhisenthusiasm andhiseditorialguidance onanearlierpublishedver- sion of Canguilhem’s ‘‘Health,’’ for which we are grateful. Franc¸ois Dela- porte graciously offered technical (and practical) advice. Lastly, we would like to acknowledge the librariansat the Archives de Georges Canguilhem at the Centre d’Archives de Philosophie, d’Histoire et d’E´dition des Sci- ences (CAPHES)of theE´cole Normale Supe´rieure,the Max Planck Insti- tute for the History of Science, and the Wayne State University Purdy KresgeLibraryfortheirassistance. ix .................18228$ $ACK 03-30-1209:43:42 PS PAGEix .................18228$ $ACK 03-30-1209:43:43 PS PAGEx
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