The silence of organs. Disagreements between health and normality according to G. Canguilhem and M. Foucault
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i1.1072Keywords:
Normality; Medicine; Corporeality; LifeAbstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze and confront two diverging theoretical perspectives –those pertaining to G. Canguilhem and M. Foucault– concerning the epistemological status of modern sciences of the human body. Both philosophers examined extra-scientific factors that play a role in the constitution of the object of physiology: the human body qualified as «normal», which medical technique regards as a therapeutic ideal. However, in his analysis Canguilhem referred to subjective and biological foundations (such as human suffering and «vital normativity»), whereas his disciple granted greater importance to the political factors of social normalization.
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