Claude Bernard, machiniste du vivant

• Authors: Azélie Fayolle

Title variants

EN

Claude Bernard as a machinist of the living

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

FR

Claude Bernard’s use of the metaphor of the “living machine” in his writings may seem surprising, since the theorist of experimental medicine is usually known for his disciplined stylistic and scientific rigor. An examination of the different occurrences of the word “machine” in a representative corpus of Claude Bernard’s writings shows that this phrase, which has a long history, allows for the identification of different scientific degrees in the physiologist’s work. This metaphor, which is also a thought pattern, emerges with the Introduction to the Study of experimental Medicine in 1865; its use indicates that some texts or textual zones are less scientific than they are philosophical or generalist.

EN

Claude Bernard’s use of the metaphor of the “living machine” in his writings may seem surprising, since the theorist of experimental medicine is usually known for his disciplined stylistic and scientific rigor. An examination of the different occurrences of the word “machine” in a representative corpus of Claude Bernard’s writings shows that this phrase, which has a long history, allows for the identification of different scientific degrees in the physiologist’s work. This metaphor, which is also a thought pattern, emerges with the Introduction to the Study of experimental Medicine in 1865; its use indicates that some texts or textual zones are less scientific than they are philosophical or generalist.

Keywords

FR

Claude Bernard; living machine; metaphor; scientific language; scientific imagination; Claude Bernard; living machine; metaphor; scientific language; scientific imagination

EN

Claude Bernard; living machine; metaphor; scientific language; scientific imagination

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 131-140

Dates

published

2018-05-16

Contributors

author

Azélie Fayolle

• Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée Biolographes

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2017.444.009