Medicine

This a small book that is nonetheless potent with an excellent selection of Steiner’s key lectures and essays on the topic of the medical arts. If you are looking for a readable  overview of the basic tenants of anthroposophical medicine, you’ve found your book.

Topics include:

• true human nature as a basis for medical practice;
• the science of knowing;
• the mission of reverence;
• the four temperaments;
• the bridge between universal spirituality and the physical;
• the constellation of the supersensible bodies;
• the invisible human within us: the pathology underlying therapy;
• cancer and mistletoe, and aspects of psychiatry;
• case history questions: diagnosis and therapy;
• anthroposophic medicine in practice: and three case histories.