Abstract
We all know, in fact we are sure, that our medical practices are very different from those in the times of Molière or of Louis XVI. In one way or another medicine has today become ‘modern’ in the same way as the whole set of knowledges and practices that call themselves rational. This is obvious, but I would like to interrogate this obviousness. Not to debunk it so as to show that beyond these appearances nothing has changed, but in order to focus in a slightly clearer way on ‘what’ has changed. To be even more precise, I would like to focus on ‘what’ has changed for the doctor, the one who practises medicine.
Highlights
We all know, we are sure, that our medical practices are very different from those in the times of Molière or of Louis XVI
Nor do I want to focus on the institutions, industries, administrative regulations and financing channels that contribute to the shaping of medical practices
What does it mean for the doctor to be carrying out a rational practice?
Summary
We are sure, that our medical practices are very different from those in the times of Molière or of Louis XVI. As the inquiry of Lavoisier and his colleagues showed, followed by the medicine of Pasteur, experimental procedure constitutes a Royal Road in as much as it puts to the test whether the candidates for causality (the cause of a cure or an illness) have in themselves the power of causality.
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