El alma en las obras médicas de Maimónides

Abstract

This article focuses on Maimonides’s references to the soul in his medical writings. The soul was a frequent topic in medical texts because of both its faculties, essencials for life, as well as its disease. Nevertheless, the way Maimonides dealt with the subject is not conventional. He was not only a physician but also a philosopher as well as being religious and he expressed his personal philosophy in his scientific writings.