Anthroposophic Nursing Practice

"This first English-language edition of Anthroposophic Nursing Practice shows not only the possibility, but the practical experience of nursing care which is both holistic and optimistic in its orientation. That is a cause for celebration!

"A monumental contribution to the field of nursing and health care in general. It will no doubt soon become the classic text in this important area. Anthroposophic Nursing Practice spans the full gamut of practices that should be a part of contemporary holistic therapeutic care and extends them in significant ways: biography, inner development (meditations), nursing gestures, rhythm, warmth, washing, wound care, pneumonia, rhythmical massage, compresses, and specializations, for example in childbirth, childhood education, psychiatric nursing, cancer, and geriatrics, including palliative care. Every nurse who approaches the care of their patients with a modern spiritual perspective will want this book on their shelf and moreover in their heart."

--Arthur Zajonc, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry

"This fundamental and comprehensive book of anthroposophic nursing practice is the result of generations of practical experience in truly holistic nursing care. Here are nursing techniques that have matured over many years through anthroposophic nurses who have been striving to define a truly integrative nursing practice. They are simple, safe, effective, and humane. They open a whole realm of clinical practices that guide the body through illness by actively calling on the body's own intrinsic healing processes.

"There are chapters that will be of very special interest, and also useful for laypeople who are caring for others, most notably the ones about caring for newborns at the beginning of life and for the elderly at the end of life."

--Adam Blanning, MD, President, Anthroposophic Health Association (AHA)