A vital rationalist : selected writings from Georges Canguilhem / edited by Fran̨cois Delaporte ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer ; with an introduction by Paul Rabinow and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges.

New York : Zone Books, 1994.

481 pages ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

The history of science -- The various models -- The history of the history of science -- Epistemology of biology -- Epistemology of physiology : A baroque physiology ; An experimental science ; The major problems of nineteenth-century physiology -- Epistemology of medicine : The limits of healing ; The new situation of medicine ; A medical revolution -- Cell theory -- The concept of reflex -- Biological objects -- René Descartes -- Auguste Comte -- Claude Bernard -- Knowledge and the living : Science and life ; The concept of life -- The normal and the pathological : Introduction to the problem ; The identity of the two states ; Implications and counterpositions -- Normality and normativity.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 455-481) and index