Description: In this provocative collection of essays, François Delaporte shows how every epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement. Through six seemingly disparate cases, Figures of Medicine reanimates the methodological and intellectual stakes at the core of the history of science and medicine.
Brief description: François Delaporte is Professor Emeritus of the University of Picardia Jules Verne. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832; The History of Yellow Fever; Anatomy of the Passions; and Nature's Second Kingdom. He also edited A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem.
Review Quotes: As always with Delaporte the scholarship is impressive, innovative and impeccable, and the analyses acute.-----Camille Limoges, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST-UQAM) Montreal