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The risks arising from using anthroposophical medicine as a substitute for evidence-based medicine are exemplified by several cases of low vaccination levels in Waldorf schools, since some anthroposophical doctors oppose immunization. A 1999 study of children in Sweden showed that in Waldorf schools, only 18% had received MMR vaccination, compared to a level of 93% in other schools nationally. A 2003 report of a widespread measles outbreak around Coburg, Germany, identified a Waldorf school as the origin. At the time, the town's mayor had condemned homeopathic doctors who had discouraged vaccination, saying, "Their stronghold is the Waldorf School, which actively encourages people not to have their children vaccinated. Now we have an epidemic." Paul Offit wrote that Steiner believed vaccination "interferes with karmic development and the cycles of reincarnation", and that adherence to this belief led to a 2008 pertussis outbreak in a Californian Waldorf school, causing its temporary closure.
== See also == Alternative cancer treatments Herbalism Holistic health
== References ==
== Further reading ==
=== Books and journal articles === Ernst, Edzard (2004). "Anthroposophical medicine: A systematic review of randomised clinical trials". Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. 116 (4): 128–30. doi:10.1007/bf03040749. PMID 15038403. S2CID 7435250. Kienle, GS; Kiene, H (2007). "Complementary cancer therapy: A systematic review of prospective clinical trials on anthroposophic mistletoe extracts". European Journal of Medical Research. 12 (3): 103–19. PMID 17507307. Singh, Simon; Ernst, Edzard (2009). "Anthroposophical medicine". Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. Transworld. ISBN 978-1-4090-8180-7.
=== Lectures by Rudolf Steiner === Broken Vessels: The Spiritual Structure of Human Frailty, Michael Lipson (ed.). ISBN 0-88010-503-8. Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine, ISBN 0-936132-80-9. Geographic medicine: The secret of the double. ISBN 0-936132-06-X The Healing Process: Spirit, Nature & Our Bodies, Catherine E. Creeger (ed.). ISBN 0-88010-474-0 Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine (Foundations of Anthroposophical Medicine, v. 1). ISBN 0-88010-463-5 Medicine: An Introductory Reader, Andrew Maendl (ed.). ISBN 1-85584-133-9 Occult Physiology ISBN 1-85584-141-X Pastoral Medicine: The Collegial Working of Doctors and Priests. ISBN 0-88010-253-5
== External links ==
Medical Section at the Rudolf Steiner Archive, An Online Library Anthroposophic Medical Library, An Online Resource