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Washington Dept. of Health (to check on complaints about physicians): 360/236-4701

Washington State Medical Association: 800/552-0612

Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission (to find out if there have been any investigations or disciplinary actions taken by this Commission against a particular doctor: 360/236-4800

www.cutcat.com A catalogue including water purification systems, electromagnetic screening devices, and other health tools.

www.explorepub.com An alternative health and energy magazine.

www.give.org Information about the ethics of various charities, especially those about which inquiries or complaints have been registered.

www.healthnet.com I don’t like this site in general because it omits Energy Work as a modality, and has little to say about Energy Medicine, but it does have good, basic information about electrodermal screening devices and about the VEGA. Go to the “Therapies” box, choose Energy Medicine, then choose “Basic explanation of electrodermal screening test.” At the end of that information is a section about the VEGA.

http://lineone.net Search for “endocrine” or “hormone” for information on hormone-disrupters.

www.oirf.com The Occidental Institute Research Foundation, has information about EDS and VEGA devices and other types of energy and “biological medicine.”

www.organicconsumers.org Information about toxic ingredients in foods, about genetically-modified foods, about pending legislation, and more.

www.ourstolenfuture.org Information on environmental contamination and its effects.

www.rachel.org Information on environmental contamination and its effects.

www.ralphmoss.com A source of “alternative” cancer information, along with its sister site: www.cancerdecisions.com

www.winnerhof.de The Bavarian Klinik Winnerhof for cancer treatment.

Paracelsus Klinik Lustmühle www.paracelsus.ch

Cell Specific Therapy / Zoetron (877) 741-2728

Doctors:

Dr. Max Gerson:
http://gerson.org

Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez:
212/213-3337 (New York)

Dr. Xue-Zhi Wang
Qigong Master and Chinese physician 206/547-2435 (in Seattle) Leads introductory Qigong classes on Saturday mornings from 9:30 - 11:30, in Room #209 of the University Heights Community Center in Seattle, or call for more information or medical appointment.

General:

Seattle Lesbian Cancer Project 206/323-6540

Cancer Control Society Information through publications, clinic directory, patient list, books, videos, conventions, and tours of alternative clinics in Mexico.www.cancercontrolsociety.com 2043 N. Berendo St., Los Angeles, CA 90027; 323/663-7801

Cancer Federation Funds research on biological modifiers, immunology, diet and psychological aspects of cancer. Conducts research and education in various therapies, conducts conferences, publishes newsletter and quarterly. www.cancerfed.com P.O. Box 1298, Banning, CA 92220-0009; 909/849-4325

CANHELP Researches cancer treatments worldwide to inform patients; rather expensive. Patrick McGrady 3111 Paradise Bay Road, Port Ludlow, WA 98365-9771 360/437-2291

Center for Advancement in Cancer Education Information, counseling and referral agency which focuses on combining the body’s natural healing potential with advances in medical science. Specializes in immunopotentiation through clinical nutrition, botanical medicine [herbs] and psychoneuroimmunology, as adjuncts or alternatives to conventional treatment. www.beatcancer.org 300 E. Lancaster Ave., Suite 100, Wynnewood, PA 19096; 610/642-4810

Commonweal Commonweal Cancer Project offers week-long residential workshops including holistic methods of recovery, and a referral service. www.commonweal.org/canproj.html CA 94924; 415/868-0970

The Health Resource Inc. Provides individualized, comprehensive research report on your specific medical condition, including mainstream, experimental and alternative treatment options. (Available for cancer and other diseases.) Costs $375 plus postage. www.thehealthresource.com 933 Faulkner Street Conway, AR 72032; 800/949-0090

International Association of Cancer Victors www.cancervictors.org Disseminates information on nontoxic chemotherapies, offers educational programs on carcinogens and nutrition, publishes quarterly. 7740 W. Manchester, Suite 203, Playa del Rey, CA 90293 310/822-5032

The Mautner Project for Lesbians With Cancer www.mautnerproject.org A national coalition of groups serving this population, plus information and a listserve.

People’s Medical Society www.peoplesmed.org Good information and a newsletter. Lots of hype for their own books, but still a worthwhile and helpful organization. 462 Walnut St., Allentown, PA 18102 800/624-8773

Women’s Cancer Resource Center email: wcrc@sinewave.com Information and referral hotline, peer referral network, in-home support services, peer support groups, resource library, newsletter, free therapy program, legal services program, educational forums and workshops, all provided free of charge. A wonderful group of women. 3023 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 510/548-9286

World Research Foundation Provides information to professionals and the public on health tools and technologies currently available outside the U.S. only. Does data searches in the field of health and environment from more than 100 countries. Has Worldwide Scientific Advisory Board. www.wrf.org41 Bell Rock Plaza, Sedona, AZ 86351-8804 520/284-3300

Books, Journals & Reports

Note: I am continually receiving information about new books and articles. Feel free to contact me for additional resources.

Alternative Therapies In Health & Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal published by Innovision Communications. Executive Editor: Dr. Larry Dossey. 169 Saxony Road, #104, Encinitas, CA 92024. ww.alternative-therapies.com.. 505/986-8266. For Therapeutic Touch research information, see “Clearing the Air in the Therapeutic Touch Controversy,” p. 100, and “Un-debunking Therapeutic Touch,” p. 101, in the July 1998 issue (Vol. 4, No. 4.)

THE CHAIN OF LIFE, by Dr. W. Guyon Richards, The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., Essex, England, 1954. About energy medicine, by a homeopathic physician.

“Chemicals, Estrogen & Breast Cancer,” by Pelican Lee, December 2000, available from Rev. Barbara Clearbridge.

“Client Summaries,” by Rev. Barbara Clearbridge, available from the author: P. O. Box 202, Chimacum, WA 98325. An updated summary of outcomes of Rev. Clearbridge’s work with clients with cancer.

CROSS CURRENTS, The Promise of Electromedicine, The Perils of Electropollution, by Dr. Robert O. Becker, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.

FOOD IS YOUR BEST MEDICINE, by Dr. Henry Bieler, Random House, 1966.

GETTING WELL AGAIN, by Dr. O. Carl Simonton and Stephanie Matthews-Simonton, Bantam Books, 1978. The first holistic program for curing cancer.

THE GOLDEN FOUNTAIN, The Complete Guide To Urine Therapy, by Coen van der Kroon, Amethyst Books, 1993.

LOVE, MEDICINE AND MIRACLES, by Dr. Bernie Siegel, Harper & Row, 1986.

MEDICINE ON TRIAL, The Appalling Story of Ineptitude, Malfeasance, Neglect, and Arrogance, by Inlander, Levin and Weiner, Prentice Hall Press, 1989. Now available from the Peoples Medical Society, 462 Walnut St., Allentown, PA 18102; 800/624-8773.

OPTIONS, The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book, by Richard Walters, Avery Publishing Group, Inc., 1993.

OXYGEN HEALING THERAPIES for Optimum Health & Vitality, by Nathaniel Altman, Healing Arts Press, 1995.

THE POLITICS OF CANCER REVISITED, by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., 1998. This author won the 1998 Right Livelihood Award — the “alternative Nobel Prize.”

RECALLED BY LIFE, by Dr. Anthony Sattilaro, Houghton Mifflin, 1982. About the macrobiotic diet which cured the author’s cancer.

“Special Report” (on rBGH in dairy products), Syracuse Cultural Workers, 2001; www.syrculturalworkers.org, (315) 474-1132, P.O. Box 6367, Syracuse, NY 13217.

TAKE THIS BOOK TO THE HOSPITAL WITH YOU, by Charles B. Inlander and Ed Weiner, People’s Medical Society, 1993. Available from the People’s Medical Society, 462 Walnut St., Allentown, PA 18102; 800/624-8773

Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, a magazine. Editor-In-Chief: Dr. Jonathan Collin, www/tldp.com, 911 Tyler, Port Townsend, WA 98368, (360) 385-6021.

VICTORY OVER CANCER, by Cyril Scott, True Health Publishing Company, London, 1939

THE WATER OF LIFE, by John W. Armstrong, Health Science Press, Saffron Walden, England, 1990 (original edition 1944). About urine therapy.

YOUR OWN PERFECT MEDICINE, by Martha M. Christy, Future Med, Inc., 1994. About urine therapy.

The following were suggested by John Ruhland, N.D., but I have not personally reviewed them. Since they are more recent than many of my sources, I include them here:

POLITICS IN HEALING, by Daniel Haley, Potomac Valley Press, 2000. Call: 800/898-0639.

2 The Chain of Life, by Dr. W. Guyon Richards, The C.W. Daniel Company, Ltd., Essex, England, 1954, p. 176

3 Options, The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book, by Richard Walters, Avery Publishing Group, Inc., 1993, p.1

4 Peter Barry, “The National Cancer Institute & The Fifty Year Cover Up,” East West Journal, January 1978,cited in Options, p.4

5 Hardin B. Jones, “"A Report On Cancer,” March 7,1969, cited in Options, p.4-5

6 Options, p. 340

7 Options, p.340 7

8 Business Week, September 22, 1986, cited in Options, p.4

9 The Chain of Life, p.170

10 Patrick McGrady, Jr., Townsend Letter for Doctors, 1984

11John Cairns, Scientific American, November 1985

12 Seattle Times, July 27, 1980, cited in Options, p.12

13 Conquering Cancer, Random House, 1978, p. 95, cited in Options, p.12

14 Jan Stjernsward, "Decreased Survival Related to Irradiation Postoperatively in Early Operable Breast Cancer," The Lancet, November 30, 1974; 14 and Mark Fuerst, "Doctors Persist With Outmoded Cancer Therapies," Cancer Forum, Vol. 9, No. 7-8, p. 11, cited in Options, p.12

15 Ben Fitzgerald, Congressional Record, August 28, 1953, cited in Options, p.13

16 William D. Kelley, Dr. Kelley’s Answer To Cancer, Wedgestone Press, 1986, p.11, cited in Options, p.14

17 T. J. Powles, et al., "Failure of Chemotherapy to Prolong Survival in a Group of Patients with Breast Cancer," The Lancet, March 15, 1980, p. 17 580, cited in Options, p.10-11

18 Gary Null, "Medical Genocide," 1987, cited in Options, p. 1

19 Scientific American, November, 1985 cited in Options, p. 336

20 Dissent In Medicine: Nine Doctors Speak Out, Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1985, cited in Options, p.11

21 Options, p.341

22 Options, p.4

23 Crosscurrents, The Promise of Electromedicine, The Perils of Electropollution, by Dr. Robert O. Becker, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990, p.xiii

24 Said at a National Academy of Sciences Symposium on DMSO, cited in Options, p. 253

25 Crosscurrents, p.54

26 Oxygen Healing Therapies For Optimum Health and Vitality, by Nathaniel Altman, Healing Arts Press, 1995, p. 2-3

27 Options, p. 190

28 Dr. Harold Ladas, “Book Review,” Cancer Victors Journal, 1988, citd in Options, p. 204

29 Chain of Life, p.195

30. John R. Herman, Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, New York State Journal of Medicine, 30 1980

31. Stanislaw Burzynski, Physiology, Chemistry & Physics, 1977, cited in Your Own Perfect Medicine, by Martha M. Christy, Future Med, 31 Inc., 1994, p. 19

32 Journal of the American Medical Association, July 3, 1954, cited in Your Own Perfect Medicine, p. 20

33 Golden Fountain, The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy, by Coen van der Kroon, Amethyst Books, 1993, p. 103

34 Your Own Perfect Medicine, p. 39-40

35 Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, cited in The Golden Fountain, p.92

36 The Chain of Life, p.134

37 Crosscurrents, p.296

38 The Chain of Life, p.176

40 Portions of this explanation were taken from “Energy Work — The Basics,” by Rev. Barbara Clearbridge, Townsend Letter for Doctors & 40 Patients, April, 1998, p. 124.

40 Crosscurrents, p.xiii, 27, 169-170

41 Crosscurrents, p.70

42 Victory Over Cancer, by Cyril Scott, True Health Publishing Company, London, 1939, p.153

43 Options, p.275

44 Options, p.248

45Options, p. 225-6

46Hands Of Light, A Guide To Healing Through The Human Energy Field, by Barbara Ann Brennan, Bantam Books, p.143 46

47Rev. Barbara Clearbridge, client histories

48 Xie Huan-Zhang, “The Scientific Basis of Chi Gong, Beijing Institute of Technology, 1985, cited in Options, p. 314

49Crosscurrents, p.108

50Crosscurrents, p.113-114

51Dr. Xue-Zhi Wang, quoted in “Qigong, China’s Healing Miracle,” by Barbara Clearbridge, Common Ground, October 1996, p. 19

52Dr. Arthur Grimmer, “Homeopathic Treatment of Cancer,” Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, vol. 23, June 1950, cited in Options, p. 285

53Options, p. 284

54The Chain of Life, p.162, 178

55Crosscurrents, p.52

56Barry Lynes, The Cancer Cure That Worked: Fifty Years of Suppression, Marcus Books, 1987, p. 61, cited in Options, p.269

57Options, p.271

58“Medicine on the Holodeck,” New Age Journal, Jan/Feb, 1998.

59 Ibid.

63“Effects of Magnetic Fields on Damaged Mice Sciatic Nerves,” Jacobson, Yamanashi, Saxena, Brown, Parekh, Shin and Saxena, Frontier

61The Chain of Life, p.199

62Crosscurrents, p.214-15

63“Deciphering the Language of Cells,” Trends in Biological Science, cited in Crosscurrents, p. 67

64Complementary & Alternative Medicine at the NIH, the newsletter of the NIH Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Spring 2001, p. 64

65Options, p.241, 243-44

66Options, p.241

67Crosscurrents, p.77

68Published in Cancer, quoted in LRC Newsletter, December, 1999 68

69Crosscurrents, p.103

70Crosscurrents, p.91

71“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” Pelican Lee, December, 2000, p.12-13

73Options, p. 141

74Options, p. 144

75Options, p. 145

76Options, p. 145

77Options, p. 31

78Your Own Perfect Medicine, p.40

79Options, p. 55

80“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” Pelican Lee, December, 2000, p. 3

81“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” p. 2

82“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” p.15

83“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” p. 6

84“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” p. 7

85Crosscurrents, p.205-6, 212-13

86Crosscurrents, p.204-5

87Crosscurrents, p.213

88Crosscurrents, p.214

89Crosscurrents, p.296

90Crosscurrents, p.202

91The Chain of Life, p.176

92The Chain of Life, p.138

93The Chain of Life, p.138, 139

94Book review of Dressed to Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras, Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, Feb/Mar 1996

95“Chemicals, Estrogen and Breast Cancer,” p. 14-15

96Options, p. 255

97Patrick McGrady of CANHELP, The Leader, March 1, 2000

98Your Own Perfect Medicine, p. 46

102David Riley, editorial, Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, Nov/Dec 1998, p. 35-36

100Your Own Perfect Medicine, p.43

101Oxygen Healing Therapies, p. 3

102Complementary & Alternative Medicine at the NIH, Spring 2001, p.8

103Crosscurrents, p.299

104“Cancer Scandal: The Policies and Politics of Failure,” videotape produced by the Patient Rights Legal Action Fund, cited in Options, p. 339

105Barry Lynes, The Healing of Cancer, Marcus Books, 1989, p. 51-2, cited in Options, p. 338, 335

106Options, p. 339 106

107Patrick McGrady, of CANHELP, The Leader, March 1, 2000

108People’s Medical Society Newsletter, June, 2000, p. 6

109Your Own Perfect Medicine, p. 43

110Oxygen Healing Therapies, p.3

111Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, “The Health-Fraud Cops: Are the Quack Busters Consumer Advocates or Medical McCarthyites?” Vegetarian Times, August, 1991, p.51, cited in Options, p. 301

112Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, quoted in Medicine On Trial, p. 201

113Crosscurrents, p.xii

114Ibid.

115V. W. Sidel and R. Sidel, A Healthy State, Pantheon, 1983, p. 94, cited in Medicine On Trial, p. 198

116Harris, Rich and Crowson, “Attitudes of Internal Medicine Residents and Staff Physicians Toward Various Patient Characteristics,” Journal of

117Medical Education, March 1985, p. 193-4, cited in Medicine On Trial, p. 199

118John Ruhland, N.D., Washington Free Press, March/April 2001

119“Doctor Discipline: A Necessary Cure for the Malpractice Crisis,” Health Letter, November/December 1985, p. 6, cited in Medicine On Trial, p. 118

120Medicine On Trial, p. 179

121People’s Medical Society Newsletter, April 2001, p. 5

122Dissent In Medicine, p. 243, cited in Options, p. 335

123Complementary & Alternative Medicine at the NIH, Spring 2001, p. 10