Based on inheritance of a common model of knowledge, drawing links between history and medicine represents a proposal to not abandon the contribution the past has to make when reflecting upon the current stage of scientific production in both fields. With this in mind, the present study endeavors to discuss history’s and medicine’s common ground and their historicity, the articulations possible between the two fields, and, lastly, the elements that should be taken into account when researching relations between them. The article proposes a network approach that will demonstrate (1) that both medical and historical studies display a narrative epistemology, used as a means of addressing specific knowledge about their objects of study and (2) that figures of language - the metaphor above all - have an important role to play in the construction and dissemination of both fields.
history; medicine; narrative; metaphor