WHAT KIND OF EPISTEMOLOGY OF HEALTH-CARE? A NOTE ABOUT ÉMILE KENMOGNE’S MALADIES PARANORMALES ET RATIONALITÉS. CONTRIBUTIONS À L’ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE DE LA SANTÉ
WHAT KIND OF EPISTEMOLOGY OF HEALTH-CARE? A NOTE ABOUT ÉMILE KENMOGNE’S MALADIES PARANORMALES ET RATIONALITÉS. CONTRIBUTIONS À L’ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE DE LA SANTÉ

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a critical review of the announced book, and its core is given by the analysis of the arguments and unfolded logic of the book put face to face with their effects.In this way, both the book and the review are parts of the necessary dialogue concerning the legitimacy of the irrational. The critical stance does not reproduce at all the mechanical view of the human rationality as mere cold logic, but is opposed to a “critique of the instrumental character of reason from the standpoint of faith”. From an epistemological point of view, this critique of extreme positions (the mechanical rationality and faith) draws attention to the necessity of a permanent awareness of researchers and common people, too, concerning the consequences of their theories.

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