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20 lectures in Dornach, Switzerland, March 21– April 9, 1920 (CW 312)
“Our task is to discover the real difference between those processes in the
human organism that we call disease processes—which are basically quite
normal, natural processes, even though specific causes must precipitate
them—and the everyday processes that we call healthy. We must discover
this radical distinction, but we shall not be able to do so if we cannot take
up a way of looking at human beings that really leads to their essential nature.” — Rudolf Steiner
In these twenty lectures, given to medical doctors and students, Steiner presents
a new approach to the art of healing, based on the insights of spiritual science.
Considering modern medical knowledge and practice and deeply versed in
alchemical, Paracelsian, and naturopathic approaches, as well as homeopathy,
aroma therapy, and other “alternative” therapies, Rudolf Steiner demonstrates,
based on his own research, how a truly integrated whole-person form of medicine
is possible—one that accepts the human as a being of body, soul, and spirit, a
microcosm in the macrocosm, a mirror of the earth and of the heavens.
Steiner’s enthusiasm and familiarity with his subject are in evidence everywhere
in this volume. The wealth of insights and the range of topics are staggering—
from the meaning of sickness, polarities in the human organism, and the relation
of therapy and pathology, to the nature of plant, mineral, and animal in relation
to the human being. Specific organs (heart, lungs, bladder, kidney, liver, and
nervous system) and specific diseases (including cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes,
and meningitis) are brought into extraordinary new relationships and
interconnections. The whole question of diagnosis, health, and treatment
is repeatedly viewed from various points of view. The result is an astounding
new vision of medicine—one that is practical, spiritual, psychological, and
fully human. This is no abstract view of medicine; much of the material arose
in direct response to the questions of practicing physicians.
This work is required reading for anyone interested in the possibility of
a non-reductionistic, non-mechanistic, Western-based holistic medicine.
Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine is a translation of Geisteswissenschaft
und Medicin (GA 312)
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