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Agnes Arnold-Forster

Agnes Arnold-Forster is a historian of modern and contemporary medicine, health care, and the emotions. Her latest book is Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion.

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Gerson’s Magic Bullet

Why have so many rejected established cancer therapies for juice cocktails and coffee enemas?