Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime

Name: Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 8

2005 · 83 min

Documentary

★ 8.0

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In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy. Was Hoxsey's recipe the work of a snake-oil charlatan or a legitimate treatment? Ken Ausubel directs this keen look into the forces that shape the policies of organized medicine.

Crew

Director Kenny Ausubel

Cast

Peter Barry Chowka
Interviewee / Journalist
Max Gail
Narrator

Crew

Director — Kenny Ausubel

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