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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 616.99406 EAN: 9780892819256 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0892819251 Label: Healing Arts Press Manufacturer: Healing Arts Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: May 01, 2000 Publisher: Healing Arts Press Release Date: May 01, 2000 Studio: Healing Arts Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 to coincide with the anticipated 2000 public release of the government-sponsored report finding "noteworthy cases of survival" among Hoxsey patients. Harry Hoxsey claimed to cure cancer using herbal remedies, and thousands of patients swore that he healed them. His Texas clinic became the world's largest privately owned cancer center with branches in seventeen states, and the value of its therapeutic treatments was upheld by two federal courts. Even his arch-nemesis, the AMA, admitted his treatment was effective against some forms of cancer. But the medical establishment refused an investigation, branding Hoxsey the worst cancer quack of the century and forcing his clinic to Tijuana, Mexico, where it continues to claim very high success rates. Modern laboratory tests have confirmed the anticancer properties of Hoxsey's herbs, and a federal govenment-sponsored report is now calling for a major reconsideration of the Hoxsey therapy. When Healing Becomes a Crime exposes the overall failure of the War on Cancer, while revealing how yesterday's "unorthodox" treatments are emerging as tomorrow's medicine. It probes other promising unconventional cancer treatments that have also been condemned without investigation, delving deeply into the corrosive medical politics and powerful economic forces behind this suppression. As alternative medicine finally regains its rightful place in mainstream practice, this compelling book will not only forever change the way you see medicine, but could also save your life. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - good bookMany just feel the subject is a joke, even the ones I know who have cancer, but this book is so well written and footnoted that if you can get past your prejudices and just read the book, you might just have a different outlook on these things. If what he writes about is true, it should make you really mad to know such evil people are running the show. I actually went back and bought a second copy to give to my coworker who has cancer. I guess that's how much I liked the book. Rating: - MedicalAn excellent book of what has been going on in America for the past 100 years. A real eye opener. Rating: - A Real Eye-openerAusubel's book is a real eye-opener, not only of the alternative cancer treatments that are out there, but of the unfortunate way of business that perpetuates keeping them under wraps. So many people could be using viable treatments that don't harm in the way that radiation and chemo do, but organized medicine/pharmaceutical companies have too much to lose if the word gets out. This book should be a must read for anyone studying "health" care, politics, and ethics. Also, anyone faced with ... Read More Rating:  - A Very Impressive Book with One Fatal FlawI was in most respects very impressed by this book. Ausubel did a great deal of meticulous research in order to tell the complete story of Harry Hoxsey's (and his successor's) efforts to bring his cancer remedy to mankind. He is a very careful, conscientious investigative jounalist. Ausubel puts the story in the context of a centuries-long war between allopathic and empiric medicine. He covers all of the bases and is extremely informative. Ausubel is also a fine, clever writer. Having said all ... Read More Rating: - What an Expose!This book had me riveted from the very first pages. The amount of work and research that went into this book proves, at least to me, the dedication Kenny Ausubel had for getting the full facts on both sides of the medicine involved -alternative and traditional. His deep research left me with even less confidence in traditional scientific medicine than I already had, which wasn't much except for acute care. My already very low opinion of the AMA, FDA, and big pharma was only confirmed and strongly convicted ... Read More 
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