About the Author

Dr. Otto Wolff was born in 1921 in Glatz, Silesia (at the time, a region in northeast Germany). He studied biochemistry and medicine and first worked as a hospital physician, then as a general physician and school doctor. Later he worked many years in the pharmaceutical industry to develop new anthroposophic medicines. He wrote numerous publications on anthroposophic medicine, including the standard work: The Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine (three volumes). During his last twenty-five years, Dr. Wolff taught anthroposophic medicine to medical doctors worldwide. He died in Arlesheim, Switzerland, in 2003.

Dr. Gerald F. Karnow, MD is a family medicine specialist in Spring Valley, New York. He studied at University of Chicago and currently practices at Fellowship Community Associates in Spring Valley. Dr. Andrea Eberly, MD, graduated from the David Geffen Medical School of Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona. After working as an attending physician in Tucson, she followed a recruiting call to the island of Guam, where she served in various roles, including as the director of the emergency department, the EMS Medical Director of Guam, and the Director of the 911 Call System. When she developed a central blindness in one eye, she retired from clinical practice, but maintained her emergency medicine board certification and now works full time training other emergency physicians for their National Board exam. Peter Luborsky is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Daphné von Boch, MD, was born in 1958 in Canada and has lived for many years in Basel, Switzerland. As an anthroposophic physician and psychologist, she worked for years in two rehabilitation clinics for anthroposophic and psychosomatic medicine, becoming the chief physician in the final years. Since 2018, she has been in private practice in Germany. Moreover, for many years she has been teaching anthroposophic medicine to physicians, principally in the East and Far East, and bringing the books of Dr. Otto Wolff back into print.