Vital Norms: Canguilhem’s "The Normal and the Pathological" in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot

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https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2022.102

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Georges Canguilhem, Normality, Illness

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Review of Vital Norms: Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot

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2022-03-11

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Simons, M. (2022). Vital Norms: Canguilhem’s "The Normal and the Pathological" in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot. Philosophy of Medicine, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2022.102

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022)

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