A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem Book

	Editor's Note	9
	Introduction: A Vital Rationalist	11
Pt. 1	Methodology
I	The History of Science	25
II	The Various Models	41
III	The History of the History of Science	49
Pt. 2	Epistemology
IV	Epistemology of Biology	67
V	Epistemology of Physiology
	A Baroque Physiology	91
	An Experimental Science	103
	The Major Problems of Nineteenth-Century Physiology	115
VI	Epistemology of Medicine
	The Limits of Healing	129
	The New Situation of Medicine	133
	A Medical Revolution	145
Pt. 3	History
VII	Cell Theory	161
VIII	The Concept of Reflex	179
IX	Biological Objects	203
Pt. 4	Interpretations
X	Rene Descartes	219
XI	Auguste Comte	237
XII	Claude Bernard	261
Pt. 5	Problems
XIII	Knowledge and the Living
	Science and Life	287
	The Concept of Life	303
XIV	The Normal and the Pathological	321
	Introduction to the Problem	321
	The Identity of the Two States	327
	Implications and Counterpositions	337
XV	Normality and Normativity	351
	Critical Bibliography	385
	Notes	455