Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime

Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime (2005)

8.0 83 min Movie
Documentary

Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime

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.

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Peter Barry Chowka Peter Barry Chowka Interviewee / Journalist
Max Gail Max Gail Narrator

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