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Speaking and Life
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A contribution by David Martin
Speaking and Life: from science through art to (re)ligio
A passionate physician and thinker takes you on a journey from the modern experience of crisis – rising mortality, speech disorders, disintegrating communication – back to the origins of science, life and language. He connects Darwin, Kant, Dubois-Reymond, cosmology, evolution and the nervous system with art, religion and medicine, and radically poses the question: what is missing from our science when it blanks out the living and the human?
A contribution by David Martin to the conference “Life Forces of Language” in October 2025 at the Goetheanum.
David Martin heads the Institute for Integrative Medicine and the Gerhard Kienle Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine. He is also co-director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme for Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences (IGIM) and of the Herdecke Research and Teaching Centre (FLZ). He was born in Vermont, USA, in 1973 and grew up in the USA, France and England. He is a paediatrician and adolescent physician, paediatric endocrinologist, oncologist, diabetologist and haematologist.
German | simultaneous translation EN · ES
Publication: 2 January 2026
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Speakers
David MartinDavid Martin is a paediatrician, paediatric endocrinologist and diabetologist. He holds the Gerhard Kienle Chair for Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine at Witten/Herdecke University and is adjunct professor of paediatrics at the University of Tübingen. He is involved in the 'Medienfasten' (media fasting) initiative, which is supported by the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.
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- Series
- Lebenskräfte der Sprache, Episode 1 of 3
- Section
- Medicine
- Language
- German, English, Spanish
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