The Amazing Story of the Harry Hoxsey Clinics and the Return of Alternative Medicine
Kenny Ausubel
2000
Summary of book by Ausubel: http://www.whale.to/m/ausubel.html
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This is a book that reads like a thriller, and the plot is as shocking as a horror movie because it did happen, and is still happening. If you just want to read one well-documented book to get the colorful history of the medical establishment versus alternative medicine, this is it. This information will open your eyes - suddenly the hidden side of every medical story will begin to become visible.

Ever wonder why alternative cancer clinics are outside the borders of the U.S.? It's because the treatments have been proven not to work, right? That's what the medical industry and the FDA would like you to think - that your safety is being protected.

Hoxsey's formula was doubly threatening to the establishment. First, it cured many people who had been given a death sentence by their doctors, without the side effects of conventional treatment Second, because of a promise to his Quaker father, Hoxsey offered the remedy free to anyone who couldn't afford it.

After you have read the incredible story of how the medical industry, with the collaboration of government health agencies - beginning 75 years ago - refused to accede to Harry Hoxsey's pleas for trials to double-blind test his formula, tried time and again to put him out of business, arrested him numerous times, attacked and tried to ruin any physician who dared to support him, and finally banned his practice in the U.S.- you will understand why the Hoxsey Clinic, and a number of other alternative clinics, are still in Mexico.

In the summary of this story, Ausubel says optimistically in 2001 "After a long exile, alternative therapies are now ascendant, riding a crest of popular demand, scientific validation, and commercial promise. The face of cancer treatment may soon become almost unrecognizable as valuable alternative therapies begin to permeate mainstream practice." You may notice that this has not happened. Splashy advertising campaigns promoting conventional cancer therapies are showing upmore and more publications, and for the most part alternative clinics remain outside the country and thier success rates relatively unknown. Alternative practitioners, even very well-known doctors, are still at risk of having their practices investigated and closed down.

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