This is a book review of Miller’s (1978) The Body in Question. His main argument is to demonstrate the body-is-a-machine metaphor through historical examples. It presents the mental and physiological functioning of the body from a physical point of view. Miller argues first that past perceptual and intellectual experiences impact the body so much that our present and future thinking is filtered through it. He claims, in my opinion unreasonably, that this led to a rationalization of the scientific enquiry only by the 1830s. Miller then goes to illustrate analogy (not metaphor) in the medical field through the example of the heart beat conceived as a pump but does so unsatisfactorily. He makes mistakes in reporting Harvey’s work and in ignoring previous work in the field of heart and their analogies. Overall The Body in Question is, at the same time, informative for the laymen and unsurprising for the experts.