A Guide to Child Health

This acclaimed guide to children’s physical, psychological, and spiritual development combines medical advice with issues of upbringing and education, this is a definitive guide for parents. It outlines the connection between education and healing, with all that this implies for the upbringing and good health of children. Medical, educational, and religious questions often overlap, and in the search for the meaning of illness, it is necessary to study the child as a whole: as a being of body, soul, and spirit.

The authors based their theory and practice on seventeen years of experience in the children’s out-patient clinic at the Herdecke Hospital in Germany.

The first section covers childhood ailments and home-nursing. The second looks at the healthy development of children and how to create the best conditions for them.

The authors examine issues of upbringing and education and their effects on later life. This book is extremely practical, describing situations of conflict and crises and possible solutions.

This edition also includes listings of relevant medical and health practices in North America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Michaela Glöckler has been Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland since 1988. She attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, then studied German language, literature, and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. She studied medicine in Tübingen and Marburg and trained as a pediatrician at the community hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Pediatric Clinic. Until 1988 she was a colleague in the children’s outpatient clinic at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and served as school doctor for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten, Germany. Michaela has many publications in German. Her publications in English include Medicine at the Threshold, A Healing Education, Developmental Insights, and A Guide to Child’s Health.

Dr. Wolfgang Goebel trained at the university pediatric clinic in Tübingen and, for a year and a half, at the Ita Wegman hospital in Arlesheim, Switzerland. He co-founded the pediatric department at the community hospital in Herdecke and was its leading physician until 1995. He has also facilitated conferences on immunization and related topics.