ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a conceptual framework, present case study materials based on one health reform movement, and then discusses the broader theoretical implications. In 1963, the laetrile patient Cecile Hoffman founded the International Association for Cancer Victims and Friends, and she partnered with the Tijuana-based physician Ernesto Contreras to obtain therapy in Mexico when it was not available in the United States (US). In 1986 Congressman Guy Molinari joined with patient advocates and 40 other Congressional representatives to ask the Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress to call for an investigation into bias against Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) cancer therapies, partly in response to the repression of immuno-augmentative therapy. In 1998, amid charges that the office was too soft on alternative medicine, it was restructured as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The US government's Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997 contains anti-harmonization language, and at the urging of advocacy organizations.
