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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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9 figures
Carlos Juan Finlay
1833 – 1915Identified the mosquito as the vector of yellow fever.
William James
1842 – 1910Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.
Weston A. Price
1870 – 1948Dentist whose global survey of traditional diets tied refined food to physical degeneration.
Oswaldo Cruz
1872 – 1917Eradicated yellow fever from Rio and founded Brazilian public health.
Benedict Lust
1872 – 1945German émigré who founded American naturopathy and its first college in 1902.
Carlos Chagas
1879 – 1934Described a disease, its parasite and its vector single-handedly.
Bernardo Houssay
1887 – 1971First Latin American science laureate; pituitary role in glucose metabolism.
Frederick Banting
1891 – 1941Co-discovered insulin and sold the patent for one dollar.
Roger J. Williams
1893 – 1988Discovered pantothenic acid and argued for biochemical individuality — the idea beneath functional medicine.