In this classic introductory work on spiritual medicine, Steiner worked in unique literary collaboration with the physician Ita Wegman. Their aim, to revitalise the art of healing through spiritual knowlege - yet in so doing they did not underrate or dismiss modern scientific medicine, but illumined it beyond its present materialistic outlook to a fuller realisation of the human condition. Today this extension of practical medicine, known as 'anthroposophical medicine', is used and valued by physicians in many clinics around the world.