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¿Existe una ética médica en Georges Canguilhem?

Resumen

Despite recent eorts, lile research has been done concern-ing the issue of medical ethics in Georges Canguilhem’s work.This is mainly due to the critical position the author takes re-garding the humanistic medicine practices that began to pro-liferate after World War II. However, we hold that the medicalphilosopher´s insights do contribute to the eld of medical eth-ics, since they rescue the patients’ individuality, which is highlyvalued in today´s person centered medicine: over the “objec-tifying” rationality of modern medicine. We also propose thatCanguilhem poses an “interactive” understanding of human lifethat goes beyond a reductionistic vision of life and which allowsthe development of an ethical subject capable of producing newnorms.