It is on this context that Canguilhem chose to focus by denouncing a dogma promoted from the end of the eighteenth century up to the present day, that of disease as the antithesis of that which is normal and usual, health.
Será en este contexto donde Canguilhem deposite su atención al denunciar un dogma fomentado desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta la actualidad al hacer del estado de enfermedad la antípoda de lo normal, lo habitual, la salud.