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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
Era
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Viktor Frankl
1905 – 1997Logotherapy: meaning as the primary human drive, tested in the camps.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909 – 2012Discovered nerve growth factor in a bedroom lab under fascist persecution.
Denis Burkitt
1911 – 1993Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.
Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley
1914 – 1998Explained the nerve impulse in mathematical terms.
J. R. Worsley
1923 – 2003Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.
Frantz Fanon
1925 – 1961Psychiatrist whose Wretched of the Earth remains the core text of decolonisation.
George Vithoulkas
b. 1932Systematised classical homeopathy teaching; Right Livelihood laureate in 1996.
Giovanni Maciocia
1945 – 2018The Foundations of Chinese Medicine became the standard Western textbook of the field.
Katalin Karikó
b. 1955Demoted, defunded, and right: her mRNA work produced the COVID vaccines.