| Description |
481 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The history of science -- The various models -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-481) and index |
| Subject |
Science -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Delaporte, François, 1941-
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| LC no. |
2001268252 |
| ISBN |
0942299736 (acid-free paper) |
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9780942299731 (acid-free paper) |
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