The Normal and the Pathological

Abstract

Section I Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological (1943).- Preface to the Second Edition (1950).- One. Is the Pathological State Merely a Quantitative Modification of the Normal State?.- I. Introduction to the problem.- II. Auguste Comte and 'Broussais's principle'.- III. Claude Bernard and experimental pathology.- IV. The conceptions of Rene Leriche.- V. Implications of the theory.- Two. Do Sciences of the Normal and the Pathological Exist?.- I. Introduction to the problem.- II. A critical examination of certain concepts: the normal, anomaly, and disease the normal and the experimental.- III. Norm and average.- IV. Disease, cure, health.- V. Physiology and pathology.- Conclusion.- Section II New Reflections on the Normal and the Pathological (1963-1966).- Twenty years later...- I. From the social to the vital.- II. On organic norms in man.- III. A new concept in pathology: error.- Epilogue.- Notes to Section I.- Bibliography to Section I.- Notes to Section II.- Bibliography to Section II.- Glossary of Medical Terms.- Index of Names.