1709–1751 French doctor and medical philosopher known for his materialistic conception of man as a machine.
Keywords: iatromechanist physiology; medical philosophy; psychology; irritability; Albrecht von Haller
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
HJ Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002765
| Further Reading | |
| book La Mettrie JO de (1912) Man a Machine. (French–English) Philosophical and Historical Notes by Bussey GC. La Salle, IL: Open Court. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1972) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Vartanian A (1960) L'homme Machine: A Study in the Origins of an Idea with an introductory monograph and notes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| book Wellman K (1992) La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. | |
