WARM UP TO FEVER
Warm up to fever was published in 2018 in Germany: the paediatrician Prof. Dr. David Martin answers the most important questions on the subject of fever and places the aspects of anthroposophic medicine on fever in the context of current fever research. For many years fever was regarded as a danger that should be strictly suppressed. Today this attitude is changing. Studies now clearly show that fever is a highly effective response of the body to fight viruses and bacteria.
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DR MICHAELA GLÖCKLER
Michaela 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 paediatrician. Until 1988 she worked 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.
1988-2016, she had been the leader of the medical section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland. She remains active as an international lecturer and trainer for Anthroposophic Medicine and Steiner Waldorf Education and is the Co-founder of the Alliance for Childhood and the European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy / ELIANT and she has contributed hugely to the publication of Growing up Healthy in a World of Digital Media: A guide for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents. Michaela's work in English includes but not limited to A Healing Education, A Waldorf Guide to Children's Health, Education as Preventive Medicine, Education for the Future, Education – Health for Life, The Dignity of the Young Child, Truth and Health, and What is Anthroposophic Medicine?.