Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime (1988)
Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime
83 min
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.
- Release date
- May 17, 2005
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Jeff Nelson, Peter Rowan
Cast
- Peter Barry Chowka as Self - Interviewee
- Peter Barry Chowka as Journalist
- Max Gail as Narrator
Crew
- Ken Ausubel · Director
- Ken Ausubel · Writer
- Ken Ausubel · Producer
- Catherine Salveson · Producer
- Jeff Nelson · Composer
- Peter Rowan · Composer
- Alton Walpole · Cinematographer
- Ernest T. Shinagawa · Editor