After Auschwitz
reflections on the future of medicine
$54.69
- Paperback
282 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2021
Summary
After Auschwitz: Confronting the Future of Medicine
“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.” – Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny)
Since 2009, Peter Selg, along with Polish historians, has led seminars on medical ethics at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial. This book emerged from a 2019 event that investigated the “lessons of Auschwitz” for the practice of medicine, both today and in the future.
Beyond commemorating individual victims, the Aus…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781621482666 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1621482669 |
| Author: | Peter Selg, Jeff Martin |
| Publisher: | Anthroposophic Press Inc |
| Imprint: | SteinerBooks, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 282 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 152mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Peter Selg
Born 1963, Stuttgart.
1986-1993 Study of human medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke, in Berlin and Zurich. Doctoral thesis: Attempt to systematize Rudolf Steiner’s human physiological ideas. An analysis of the entire lecture and written work (Witten/Herdecke 1995).
1993-2000 Further training as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Senior physician in the psychiatric department for adolescents and young adults at the Herdecke Community Hospital.
2000-2002 Research associate at the Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology (Freiburg).
2002-2006 Head physician at the Ita Wegman Clinic Arlesheim (adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy); since 2006 establishment and management of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Anthroposophical Research.
Since 2007 professorship for medical anthropology and ethics at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Alfter near Bonn); teaching in the Studium fundamentale and in the accompanying studies in anthroposophic medicine at the University/Witten-Herdecke.
Since 2020, Co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.
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