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Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime

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Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime

Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime

8.6

1h 23m

2005

“Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime”

Synopsis

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy. Was Hoxsey's recipe the work of a snake-oil charlatan or a legitimate treatment? Ken Ausubel directs this keen look into the forces that shape the policies of organized medicine.

Director

Kenny Ausubel

Documentary

historicalsocial documentary

Cast & Crew

Peter Barry Chowka

Peter Barry Chowka

as Interviewee / Journalist

Max Gail

Max Gail

as Narrator

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