title: [250 years ago "L'Homme machine" was published. La Mettrie (1709-1753). The origins of medical materialism].
abstract: Some 250 years ago, the publication of "L'Homme machine" established the fact that human body and brain functioning was to be approached by human study just as like as physics or chemistry.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire, Université de Liège.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Limet
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history; D005602:France; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008678:Metaphysics / Q000266:history; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*