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When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies
A powerful and substantiated expose of the medical politics that prevents promising alternative cancer therapies from being implemented in the United States. • Focuses on Harry Hoxsey, the subject of the author's award-winning documentary, who claimed to cure cancer using herbal remedies.
• Presents scientific evidence supporting Hoxsey's cancer-fighting claims.
• Published...more
• Presents scientific evidence supporting Hoxsey's cancer-fighting claims.
• Published...more
Paperback, 480 pages
Published
May 1st 2000
by Healing Arts Press
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This Exposé is the story of Harry Hoxsey and of the politics of cancer. It is an eye-opening look at the dirty secrets of oncology. The author, Kenny Ausubel, shares the intriguing story of Harry Hoxey, whose great-grandfather stumbled upon a cure for cancer. Harry received the recipe for the herbal salve and tonic from his grandfather on his deathbed. He told Harry to guard the secret with his life because there people out there who would want it at any cost. He also told Harry not to charge th...more
I'm not a huge fan of expose types of books. I think that there was a lot of poor me in it and I don't think that Harry Hoxsey was a saint or anything. I do believe there are a lot of biases in healing and that the government is heavily influenced. However, I also think that sometimes people in natural healing bring it on themselves. I would not have read this book at all except that it was for a class.
Interesting and thought provoking book about the alternative medical cure for cancer offered by Henry Hoxey in the first half of the 20th century. The cure invovled either a salve or a tonic (taken internally) and Hoxey claimed success in curing many cancers. The legal and medical communities fought his practice and clinics and he was a cause celebre for many years. Finally, he moved his last US clinic to Mexico, where it still is in operation. Quack or miracle worker? Since I knew of his story...more
a brilliant double track detailing the heroic life of cancer curing Harry Hoxsey as the singular good guy in an epic decade long battle against Morris Fiscbein, head of the behemoth American Medical Association as representative of the entire allopathic medical industry.
At the same time it's the story of healthcare and its availability during the last 150 years in the US.
At the same time it's the story of healthcare and its availability during the last 150 years in the US.
It is amazing how the AMA has blacklisted Natural Healers for so long
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