{"id":69539,"date":"2026-01-01T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=69539"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:11:40","slug":"anthroposophic-medicine-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/anthroposophic-medicine-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthroposophic Medicine in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"Digitalization and acceleration threaten to alienate life and isolate the soul. In anthroposophic medicine, the concepts of the etheric and warmth provide powerful tools and perspectives for individual healers and the therapeutic community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt may sound presumptuous to describe the tasks of anthroposophic medicine in the 21st century, and yet, as someone who shares responsibility for the Medical Section, I\u2019d like to ask: What\u2019s coming on the horizon? Where do we stand today in the history of medicine? Since the turn of the millennium, our medicine has been shaped by three developments that demand our full attention. First, economization, that is, the need to generate profits in the healthcare sector, has increased exponentially. With that comes the second development: the advanc<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digitalization and acceleration threaten to alienate life and isolate the soul. In anthroposophic medicine, the concepts of the etheric and warmth provide powerful tools and perspectives for individual healers and the therapeutic community. It may sound presumptuous to describe the tasks of anthroposophic medicine in the 21st century, and yet, as someone who shares responsibility for the Medical Section, I\u2019d like to ask: What\u2019s coming on the horizon? Where do we stand today in the history of medicine? Since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12423,"featured_media":69312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8838,8788,8805],"tags":[11737,8798,11739],"class_list":["post-69539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-issues","category-essay-en","category-medicine","tag-ausgabe-49-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-1-2-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}