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“Maintenance of health” has embodied the axis on which have been articulated and evaluated the contributions of Descartes to medicine. Scholars have been centred on the Cartesian therapeutic for diseases, ignoring other dimensions which the Cartesian medical project also studied. Thus, this article affirms the existence of a second sense of conservation of health understood as “health preservation”, analyzing the Cartesian diet, which prevents ―according to Descartes― the contraction of different diseases. That examination seeks to show in which way the diet allows the preservation of health, and how it is justified by appealing to the Cartesian physiology.

Sergio García Rodríguez, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Doctoral student at Universitat de les Illes Balears. His research areas are: Descartes and Northamerican pragmatism.

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Received 2017-04-04
Accepted 2017-04-04
Published 2017-01-15