@article{1477820,
      recid = {1477820},
      author = {Canguilhem, Georges,  and Geroulanos, Stefanos,  and  Ginsburg, Daniela,  and Marrati, Paola,  and Meyers, Todd,  },
      title = {Knowledge of Life /},
      pages = {1 online resource (200 p.)},
      abstract = {As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François  Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates,  Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the  philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally.  In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his  essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of  epistemological histories that seek to establish and  clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of  philosophical and biological concepts that defined the rise  of modern biology. How do transformations in biology and  modern medicine shape conceptions of life? How do  philosophical concepts feed into biological ideas and  experimental practices, and how are they themselves  transformed? How does knowledge "undo the experience of  life so as to help man remake what life has made without  him, in him or outside of him?" Knowledge of Life is  Canguilhem's effort to explain how the movements of  knowledge and life come to rest upon each other. Published  at the dawn of the genetic revolution and still pertinent  today, the book tackles the history of cell theory, the  conceptual moves toward and away from mechanical  understandings of the organism, the persistence of  vitalism, and the nature of normality in science and its  objects.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477820},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291977},
}