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The main problem of modern health care is to express its goals and its limits. To do this it is necessary to answer the fundamental question: what is normal and what is pathological? The French physician and philosopher Georges Canguilhem has tried to answer this question. He claims that for medicine, the difference between these fundamentals is determined by normativity and not by science. In doing this he wishes to save the autonomy of the individual patient and to delimit medicine from science.
现代医疗保健的主要问题在于明确其目标与局限。要做到这一点，就有必要回答一个基本问题：何为正常，何为病态？法国医生兼哲学家乔治·康吉莱姆曾试图回答这个问题。他宣称，对于医学而言，这些基本概念之间的差异是由规范性而非科学决定的。他这样做是希望维护个体患者的自主性，并将医学与科学区分开来。
