Illness and Therapy
Illness and Therapy 9 lectures, Dornach, April 11-18, 1921 (CW 313)In a series of nine lectures to doctors, pharmacists and students, Steiner presents a wealth of medical ideas with numerous…
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Illness and Therapy
9 lectures, Dornach, April 11-18, 1921 (CW 313)In a series of nine lectures to doctors, pharmacists and students, Steiner presents a wealth of medical ideas with numerous therapeutic and diagnostic insights. These challenging but enlightening concepts unlock a wonderful diagnostic tool for appraising and understanding patients. As with his first series of lectures on medicine a year earlier (Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine), the range, depth and scope of Steiner's subject matter is breathtaking.Steiner begins by describing the interplay of physical and metaphysical aspects of the human being, presenting a paradigm in which the four bodies--physical, etheric, astral, and "I"--interrelate in contrasting ways with the threefold human organism of head, thorax and metabolism and with our capacities for thinking, feeling, and volition.
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