Epistemology of medicine
The epistemology of the Medicine or medical epistemology is a reflection on medical science, i.e. on the scientific part (medical Connaissance) of the medicine which is at the same time a Science and a Pratique (Praxis).
Medical epistemology is interested in construction of medical knowledge (medical ontology) and on the process of emergence, evolution and disappearance of the medical entities: diseases, lesions, clinical signs, syndromes clinical…
It is also about the delimitation within the Médecine between a scientific Médecine and a nonconventional Médecine (or Alternative medicine).
Philosophers
Some philosophers were interested in medical epistemology, like Georges Canguilhem ( the normal one and pathological the ) or Michel Foucault ( Histoire of the madness at the traditional age , 1961; Birth of the private clinic. An archeology of the medical glance , 1963; words and the things. An archeology of the social sciences , 1966).
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