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Normal and pathological

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Without the concepts of normal and pathological, the physician's work is difficult to comprehend. However, their necessity does not mean they are self-evident. Are "pathology" and "abnormal" identical? Are they opposed to "normal"? Do we really mean the same thing when we speak of "anomaly" and "abnormality"? Reflecting on these questions requires extensive knowledge in several empirical fields, and the answers to them require a range of metaphysical intuitions regarding Life itself and its values. This is precisely why the book by Georges Canguilhem (1904–1995), a prominent representative of French "historical epistemology" (Alexandre Koyré, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault, and others), is not limited to an exercise in the history of medicine but rather examines the problematic of the normal and the pathological from an ontological perspective. Can we detect echoes of Life itself, assessing its own state, in the categories of "normal," "pathological," and "health"? This question, with its vitalist-Nietzschean resonance, will be repeated, either explicitly or implicitly, throughout the book and will receive an answer at the end.
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