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A brilliant and stimulating book. Howard L. Laye Journal of Interdisciplinary History

When is a disease not a disease? ... Is it valid to talk of a person being ill without a disease or having a disease without being sick? All these problems--of definition, demarcation and decision--we feel are special to medicine today. It is chastening, therefore, to be reminded that the questions underlying them were being analyzed, with great perspicacity, by the French philosopher and historian of science, Georges Canguilhem, in a work written in 1943 and now gratifyingly back in print in an English translation. -- Roy Porter, London Review of Books

A brilliant and stimulating book. -- Howard L. Laye, Journal of Interdisciplinary History A brilliant and stimulating book. -- Howard L. Laye * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *

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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 La Connaissance de la Vie, Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, and The Normal and the Pathological. Michel Foucault (1926–84) is widely considered to be one of the most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.

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