Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine sets out to combine conventional treatment with lifestyle, mind-body and traditional approaches inside evidence-based practice. The twentieth- and twenty-first-century leaders indexed here built academic centres, curricula and trial programmes — and drew sustained criticism, which the profiles record.
21 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 8 countries
Where to start
Rudolf Steiner
1861 – 1925Founded anthroposophic medicine with Ita Wegman; still practised in European hospitals.
Austria·Integrative Medicine · Philosophy · Education
Hakim Ajmal Khan
1868 – 1927Physician of Unani medicine who built its modern colleges and led the Indian National Congress.
India·Integrative Medicine · Education
Benedict Lust
1872 – 1945German émigré who founded American naturopathy and its first college in 1902.
United States·Integrative Medicine · Education
Integrative Medicine across the centuries
19th century · 4
20th century · 17
- Elmer Green1917 – 2017
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi1918 – 2008
- B. K. S. Iyengar1918 – 2014
- Tenzin Choedrak1922 – 2001
- Michio Kushi1926 – 2014
- George Vithoulkasb. 1932
- Herbert Benson1935 – 2022
- Rachel Naomi Remenb. 1938
- Andrew Weilb. 1942
- Jon Kabat-Zinnb. 1944
- Gabor Matéb. 1944
- Candace Pert1946 – 2013
- Deepak Choprab. 1946
- Dean Ornishb. 1953
- David Eisenbergb. 1955
- Wayne Jonasb. 1955
- Tieraona Low Dogb. 1963