Reviews for Shades of Orange: A history of the royal house of the Netherlands (Rijksmuseum dossiers)

The average rating for Shades of Orange: A history of the royal house of the Netherlands (Rijksmuseum dossiers) based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-27 00:00:00 Mark Kaplowitz Can a book change your life? I read it at the high school on the advices of my professor of philosophy. At this time, I hesitated between medicine and philosophy. The little red book. Canguilhem, resistant to the Nazi, physician and philosopher. In short a model, a hero. He has given the aggregation of philosophy to Foucault. It was a completed time or France had great thinkers. Philosopher and physician, he made the synthesis in this work which takes again its thesis of 1943. Canguilhem fights positivism very present in medicine as in Claude Bernard for example. For him, the pathological status is defined like a quantitative variation compared to the normality. For Canguilhem, the disease is perceived qualitatively by the patient. Pathological status must be defined both quanttatively and qualiatively. Questioning on the concept of normality, he gives the patient to the center of the medical approach : “The physician must take account of the individual and subjective dimension of the disease, the conscience and the feeling of the patient “ That appears normal and obvious to you but it was very new. Thank you Georges.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-02 00:00:00 Glen Rich A wise, provocative book. Some quotes: "Health is organic innocence. It must be lost, like all innocence, so that knowledge may be possible." "The laws of physics and chemistry do not vary according to health or disease. But to fail to admit from a biological point of view, life differentiates between its states means condemning oneself to be even unable to distinguish food from excrement. Certainly a living being's excrement can be food for another living being but not for him. What distinguishes food from excrement is not a physicochemical reality but a biological value. Likewise, what distinguishes the physiological from the pathological is not a physicochemical objective reality but a biological value." "No one innocently knows that he is innocent since being aware of adequation to the rule means being aware of the reasons for the rule which amounts to the need for the rule. It is appropriate to contrast to the overly exploited Socratic maxim no knowing man is evil, the opposite maxim that no one is good who is aware of being so. Similarly no one is healthy who is aware of being so... But it is in the rage of guilt as in the clamor of suffering that innocence and health arise as the terms of a regression as impossible as it is sought after." Comment would be superfluous.