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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions

All disciplines Medicine55 Public Health6 Nutrition9 Psychology9 Integrative Medicine21 Functional Medicine9 Traditional Chinese Medicine11 Ayurveda10

Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.

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All countries Argentina4 Barbados2 Brazil6 Canada6 Chile2 Colombia2 Costa Rica1 Cuba2 Guatemala2 Mexico3 Peru1 Saint Lucia1 Trinidad and Tobago1 United States76 Uruguay1 Venezuela1

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Ancel Keys

1904 – 2004

The Seven Countries Study put diet at the centre of cardiovascular prevention.

United States·Nutrition · Public Health

Vincent Felitti

b. 1935

Co-led the Adverse Childhood Experiences study linking childhood trauma to lifelong disease.

United States·Public Health · Functional Medicine

David Eisenberg

b. 1955

His 1993 survey of unconventional therapy use forced US medicine to take the field seriously.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Public Health

Wayne Jonas

b. 1955

Directed the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and built the evidence agenda for whole-person care.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Public Health