History of medicine and history of ideas: from Sigerist to Canguilhem

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9020.intelligere.2016.114903

Keywords:

Georges Canguilhem, Henry E. Sigerist, history of science, history of medicine, history of ideas

Abstract

Historians of philosophy and historiography have consistently neglected the relevance of Henry E. Sigerist's works on history of medicine to Canguilhem's conception of the historicization of the sciences. This article aims to shed some light on the intellectual circumstances that connected two of the last century's most important historians of medicine, by following the influence of Sigerist's book Introduction à la Médecine upon Canguilhem's historical technique of the investigation of medical thought.

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Author Biography

  • Tiago Santos Almeida, Uiversidade de São Paulo
    Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social da USP

Published

2016-05-27

How to Cite

History of medicine and history of ideas: from Sigerist to Canguilhem. (2016). Intelligere, 2(1), 68-83. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9020.intelligere.2016.114903