“…For the school that recognizes ruptures (Sterling, Eyer, 1988;Rose, 1997;McEwen, Wingfield, 2010), the history of regulation has been marked by a rejection of the normo-centricity of Claude Bernard's model (1879). Insisting on the constancy of the milieu intérieur, the father of modern physiology took as his foundation a fixed and normative conception of the organism (Canguilhem, 1978(Canguilhem, [1966; Rose, 1997), which proved incapable of accounting for the adaptability of living organisms. Peter Sterling and Joseph Eyer (1988) worked in this interpretive line when they wanted to reground the homeostatic model by introducing the concept of allostasis, understood as "the stability of the organism through change" (Sterling, Eyer, 1988, p. 636).…”