Form, Life, and Consciousness: An Introduction to Anthroposophic Medicine and Study of the Human Being by Armin J. Husemann, MD

Medical études’ is the title Armin Husemann would have preferred for the studies published here, and rightly so. In this book, Husemann―an anthroposophic physician, Goethean researcher, teacher, and head of the Eugen Kolisko Academy at the Filder Clinic in Filderstadt (near Stuttgart)―develops a medical perspective on the human being that infuses the often highly abstract scientific foundations of medicine with artistic sensibility. The result is a new, supple form of medical thinking that might be called ‘medical science through art,’ to use an expression previously coined by Husemann himself.” ―Prof. Peter Heusser, MD Dr. Armin Husemann outlines―for doctors, therapists, students, and other interested readers―the basics and essential aspects of anthroposophic medicine. He takes the reader on an exciting journey of discovery through the realms of minerals, plants, animals, and humankind. In doing so, diverse, unfamiliar perspectives open up for the practice of medicine and other forms