Médicos y filósofos en la historia

"If you are not a philosopher, you are not a doctor, but a mere prescriber," said Galen, aware that philosophy and medicine are parallel and convergent disciplines, which were born together and grew hand in hand until heartbreak came and they grew apart. ..but only temporarily. What relationship exists between the two? Are they parallel or convergent disciplines? They are in continuous dialectics, seeking their balance and we are not aware that our future depends on it. In this book you will discover the lives of people who refused to be classified and who were nothing but themselves. From Empedocles or Hippocrates to Galen or Sextus Empiricus, without forgetting, in the Middle Ages, Avicenna, Averroes or Maimonides. Many followed in his wake: John Locke, La Mettrie, Albert Schweitzer, Freud, Jaspers or Pedro Laín Entralgo... All of them approached philosophy and medicine without sticking to the postulates that were imposed on them, whether from medicine or from philosophy. In a divided and labeled world, these pages challenge conventions, review the main problems that medicine and philosophy have faced throughout their history, and how the authors who transitioned between both disciplines faced them. The book is human, humanist and unclassifiable, precisely because it is addressed to those who do not allow themselves to be catalogued.