by Jean Hamburger · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020069359
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«La raison et la passion» is Jean Hamburger's essay, published by Seuil in 1984 in paperback (162 pages, in French).
A work in which Jean Hamburger reflects on the limits of knowledge, with special attention to medicine and the life sciences. The author examines what reason can know about the human body, disease and medical practice, and confronts that knowledge with questions that elude what can be demonstrated.
The work carries the subtitle «Réflexion sur les limites de la connaissance», belongs to the philosophy of medicine and includes bibliographic references.
For readers interested in medical thought and in the limits of scientific knowledge.
Jean Hamburger was a French physician, surgeon and essayist. He is particularly known for his contribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renal transplantation in France in 1952.
