Health: Crude concept and philosophical question

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Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 467-477

  Canguilhem, Georges ^a  

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EID: 56749142839     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-2008-007     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. Epictetus, Dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, 2.17.8.
2. The essay was originally given as a lecture in Strasbourg, France, in May 1988. - Trans.
3. See also Canguilhem's discussions of Leriche in The Normal and the Pathological, trans. Carolyn Fawcett (New York: Zone, 1989),
4. and in Knowledge of Life, ed. Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers, trans. Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming). - Trans.
5. Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1942).
6. Charles Daremberg, La médecine, histoire et doctrines (Paris: Didier, 1865).
7. Henri Michaux, Les grandes épreuves de l'esprit et les innombrables petits (Paris: Gallimard, 1966), 14.
8. Denis Diderot, Lettre sur les aveugles; Lettre sur les sourds et muets (Paris: Flammarion, 2000), 110.
9. G. W. Leibniz, Theodicy, trans. E. M. Huggard (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966), 281, 285-86.
10. Andreas Christoph Wasianski, Immanuel Kant, sein Leben in Darstellungen von Zeitgenossen (Berlin: Deutsche Bibliothek, 1912).
11. Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties, trans. Mary J. Gregor (New York: Abaris, 1979), 181.
12. Descartes to Chanut, March 31, 1649, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, vol. 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 370.
13. Édouard Brissaud, Histoire des expressions populaires relatives à l'anatomie, à la physiologie et à la médecine, 2nd ed. (Paris: Chamerot, 1892).
14. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage, 1967). [As Canguilhem's quotations are too short to allow for proper citation, we translate directly his use of Nietzsche's passages; however, we reference the English editions of the books. - Trans.]
15. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1974).
16. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin, 1990), 180. [We translate directly from Canguilhem. Hollingdale's translation is "Everything well-constituted, proud, high-spirited, beauty above all." - Trans.]
17. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Adrian del Caro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 22.
18. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 23.
19. Ernst Henry Starling, The Chemical Control of the Body: Harvey Lectures, 1907-1908 (New York: Lippincott, 1909), 115-31:
20. Walter B. Cannon, The Wisdom of the Body (New York: Norton, 1932).
21. Ernst Henry Starling, Principles of Human Physiology (London: Churchill, 1968).
22. Charles Kayser, Physiologie les grandes fonctions, 3rd ed. (Paris: Flammarion, 1992).
23. Claude Bernard, Leçons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale (Paris: Baillière, 1877), 72, 354, 421.
24. Starling, Principles of Human Physiology, 1-9.
25. René Descartes, Discourse on Method, and The Meditations, trans. F. E. Sutcliffe (New York: Penguin, 1968), 163.
26. Raymond Ruyer, Paradoxes de la conscience et limites de l'automatisme (Paris: Michel, 1960), 198.
27. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve, trans. Robert Martin Adams (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 203. [We translate directly from Canguilhem's quotation. - Trans.]
28. Samuel Auguste André David Tissot, Avis au peuple sur sa santé (Paris: P. Fr. Didot le Jeune, 1782);
29. Tissot, De la santé des gens de lettres (Geneva: Slatkine, 1981).
30. Étienne Tourtelle, Éléments d'hygiène (Strasbourg: Levrault, 1797);
31. Tourtelle, The Principles of Health: Elements of Hygiene; or, A Treatise on the Influence of Physical and Moral Causes on Man, and on the Means of Preserving Health, trans. G. Williamson, from 2nd French ed., corr. and enl. (Baltimore, Md.: Toy, 1819).
32. Constitution of the World Health Organization, Principle 1 (WHO, Basic Documents, 45th ed., suppl., October 2006).
33. Antonin Artaud, "Lettre à la voyante," La révolution surréaliste, December 1, 1926, 17nl.
34. Nicolas Malebranche, "Dialogue III," in Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion, ed. Nicholas Jolley, trans. David Scott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 34-35.
35. Michel Henry, Philosophie et phénoménologie du corps: Essai sur l'ontologie biranienne (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1965);
36. Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body, trans. Girard Etzkorn (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1975).
37. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L'union de l'âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson (Paris: Vrin, 1968);
38. Merleau-Ponty, Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France, comp. and ed. Dominique Séglard, trans. Robert Vallier (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2003).
39. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1968), 234.
40. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Résumés de cours, Collège de France, 1952-1960 (Paris: Gallimard, 1968).
41. Ruyer, Paradoxes de la conscience, 285. I could not abstain from evoking now the late Roger Chambon. In his thesis, Le monde comme perception et réalité (Paris: Vrin, 1974), he brilliantly presented and discussed the works of Henry and Merleau-Ponty and more attentively still those of Ruyer.
42. "While metaphysical thoughts which bring into exercise the pure understanding serve to render familiar the notion of mind; and while the study of mathematics, which exercises the imagination chiefly in the consideration of shapes and movements, accustoms us to form very distinct notions of body; it is by relying exclusively on the activities and concerns of ordinary life, and by abstaining from metaphysical meditation and concentrating instead on things which exercise the imagination [in mathematics and physics], that we can learn to apprehend the union of soul and body." René Descartes, "Letter to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, 28 June 1643," in Descartes' Philosophical Writings, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (New York: Modern Library, 1958), 255.
43. Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, 47.