摘要：In the antiquity, and through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, the connection between medicine and phi- losophy was very tight: Galenus, Avicenna, Paracelsus, Cardanus were, at the same time, famous physicians and philosophers. They investigated the human body from a perspective that was naturalistic and vitalistic, by using now-obsolete notions like final causes, virtues, humors and fluids. However, in the XVII century, after the victory of the so-called "iatromechanic medicine" (that is, a medicine that was based on a mechanistic view of human anatomy and functions), things changed dramatically and medicine got much closer to the natu- ral sciences than to philosophy. So, how is it possible that today many scholars are revitalizing the connection between medicine and philosophy.
