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Adiaphorisation and the digital nursing gaze: Liquid surveillance in long‐term care [PDF]

open access: yesNursing Philosophy, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract The nursing gaze, that is the specific ways of observing the patient in nursing practice, has been the object of ethical debates for decades. It has been argued that the specific feature of observing patients in nursing is the stereoscopic vision that allows nurses to see the patient at the same time as a subject and a body.
Giovanni Rubeis
wiley   +2 more sources

Narratives of Genetic Selfhood** [PDF]

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 468-486, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This essay considers the mid‐twentieth century adoption of genetic explanations for three biological phenomena: nutritional adaptation, antibiotic resistance, and antibody production. This occurred at the same time as the hardening of the neo‐Darwinian Synthesis in evolutionary theory. I argue that these concurrent changes reflect an ascendant
Angela N. H. Creager
wiley   +2 more sources

Reasoning in Life: Values and Normativity in Georges Canguilhem [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2020
AbstractThis paper aims at giving an account of the philosophy of norms of Georges Canguilhem in the framework of his philosophical vitalism. According to Canguilhem, vitalism is not a metaphysical or ontological theory, but rather a general attitude or a perspective about life and living beings, both understood employing the axiological concept of ...
Vissio G.
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The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis [PDF]

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 442-456, March 2025.
Abstract Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif is increasingly salient in sociological scholarship. We identify and criticise an ‘anonymous’ emphasis in this scholarship, which often presents the dispositif as an anonymous network that acts without human agents.
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup   +1 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Introduction to Dossier Georges Canguilhem

open access: yesTransversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2018
Introduction to Dossier Georges ...
Fábio Ferreira Almeida
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Contextualizing Medical Norms: Georges Canguilhem’s Surnaturalism [PDF]

open access: yesHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 2016
One of the key criticisms of understanding health in terms of adaptation to one’s environment is that medical judgments should be able to apply across environments. If we say that a condition is pathological ‘for person X in environment E’, then we quickly run into problems of desirability and social values. However, many key concepts in biology entail
Jonathan Sholl
exaly   +2 more sources

Um diálogo inaudito entre Canguilhem e Foucault

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2021
O artigo aborda algumas das diferenças entre a “história epistemológica” de Georges Canguilhem e a “história arqueológica”, tal como praticada por Michel Foucault.
Caio Souto
doaj   +1 more source

Politics of Psychoanalytic Knowledge: Canguilhem’s Reading of Freud

open access: yesScienza & Politica, 2021
Georges Canguilhem has never systematically discussed Sigmund Freud’s thinking. This essay aims to reconstruct Canguilhem’s reading of Freudian psychoanalysis, highlighting its strategic use within the framework of Canguilhem’s controversy against ...
Annagiulia Canesso
doaj   +1 more source

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