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“Rational surgery” by building on tradition Ambroise Paré’s conception of “medical” knowledge of the human body

Marie Gaille

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One must depart from Paré's common reputation to understand Paré's interest for the history and philosophy of medicine. He is actually more a " user " of the anatomical knowledge than an important figure of its renewal. From this point of view, he could be seen as a secondary character of the plot that gave rise to the study of nature and anthropology with a modern " scientific " basis. Still, he is a fully relevant figure in this respect for two reasons. First of all, this contribution intends to show that his use of anatomical knowledge implies a very specific way to both keep on and break with the medical Ancient tradition. His apparently paradoxical relationship with tradition is linked to his conception of an anatomical knowledge able to answer the practical requirements of what he calls " rational surgery ". Besides, he advocates specific epistemological views on the proper order according to which medical knowledge must be elaborated and expressed. This leads him to reject what he calls the " philosophical " approach of the human body, in order to promote a " medical " type of method and knowledge of the latter we will examine in the third part of our paper. He thus contributes to delineate a border between philosophy and medicine that was still, in his times, quite blurred and uncertain.

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Marie Gaille. “Rational surgery” by building on tradition Ambroise Paré’s conception of “medical” knowledge of the human body . Human and animal cognition in early philosophy and medicine, 2017. ⟨halshs-01675316⟩
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