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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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Ancel Keys
1904 – 2004The Seven Countries Study put diet at the centre of cardiovascular prevention.
Zhu Lian
1909 – 1978Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.
Denis Burkitt
1911 – 1993Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.
Vincent Felitti
b. 1935Co-led the Adverse Childhood Experiences study linking childhood trauma to lifelong disease.
David Eisenberg
b. 1955His 1993 survey of unconventional therapy use forced US medicine to take the field seriously.
Wayne Jonas
b. 1955Directed the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and built the evidence agenda for whole-person care.