Résumé
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What is the common factor between the beginnings of blood transfusion in Europe in the second half of the 18th century and the discovery of germ-carrying mosquitoes in China at the end of the 19th? Or between the reconstitution of a nose using strips of skin in Bologna at the end of the 16th century and the piercing of a sebaceous cyst in Guatemala in 1916? Or yet again between the examination of face transplant in Amiens in 2005 and that of a bloated face in South America in the 1930s? The answer is certainly not what the first thematic analogies that come to our minds as we compare the texts of 'Figures de la médecine' might suggest. Yet one of the keys to the unity of this book is to be found in the critique of analogy itself. The six texts offer a profusion of symmetrical situations, examples of cross-pollination through which a concept or a belief is imported from a foreign domain to help solve a problem. However, when applied blindly, without thought for specificities of place, symmetries and analogies always end up by posing more problems than they solve. Each story in this book begins with those problems. For François Delaporte, each epistemological problem contains its own specific mode of resolution, and if we can find a unity in these problems, it must be sought in that specificity, not in one method of resolution common to all of them which means that the wealth of problems resides in that of their objects, but also in the reality and place in which the problems arose.
L'auteur - François Delaporte
Autres livres de François Delaporte
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | François Delaporte |
Collection | Passages |
Parution | 01/10/2009 |
Nb. de pages | 185 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 390g |
EAN13 | 9782204086370 |
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