This study aims to approach the notions of nature and its transformations, from Antiquity up to the current days, as well as its derivations for health through a literature review. The notion of health is presented according to the different time periods that have marked our time or, in other words, the Period of Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modernity and Contemporary Age. Health in society is related to nature. The advance of science has been provoking consequences in nature, forcing mankind to become aware of the diversification and of the multiplicity of phenomena. It implies an emergent complexity, with different forms of comprehension of human life and its interaction with nature in the different moments of this society. The conclusion is that nature, along the course of History, has been conceived under several viewpoints, associated and crossed by the way of life in society, sensations, thoughts and actions.
nature; philosophy; science; natural sciences; health