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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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Jonas Salk
1914 – 1995Polio vaccine, unpatented — 'could you patent the sun?'
Herbert Benson
1935 – 2022Documented the relaxation response at Harvard and made mind-body medicine measurable.
Sidney MacDonald Baker
b. 1936Framed clinical practice around the tack rule — take out what harms, put in what's missing.
Ted Kaptchuk
b. 1947Wrote The Web That Has No Weaver, then founded Harvard's programme in placebo studies.
Joseph Pizzorno
b. 1948Co-founded Bastyr University, the first accredited natural-medicine university in the United States.
Dean Ornish
b. 1953Proved lifestyle change can reverse coronary artery disease; first such programme reimbursed by Medicare.
Katalin Karikó's collaborator Drew Weissman
b. 1959Co-discovered nucleoside-modified mRNA.