Doctor Max Gerson Resource Library Historical Documents

History of the Gerson Therapy

Patricia Spain Ward, author of "History of the Gerson Therapy", is one of a baker's dozen best medical historians in the United States. This paper was originally written by Dr. Ward under a contract to the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) during its evaluation of alternative methods of cancer management. This article, along with two others by Dr. Ward, were suppressed by OTA staff until their release under pressure from U.S. Senator Charles Grassley of the Technology Assessment Board of Congress. Her experience with OTA, the process which led to drastic changes in the "Unconventional Cancer Treatments" document, and her impressions of important participants in that process, have had a significant impact on her and on U.S. cancer medicine.
Interview with Dr. Ward published in the 1992 newsletter NL Vol. 8 # 1& 2 pg. 39

MEMORANDUM ON THE MADISON FOUNDATION
by Margaret Hope Gerson - Dr. Max Gerson's widow
from the ending of her incomplete biography of Dr. Max Gerson
"A Life Without Fear"

Healing The Hopeless 2002
by Howard Straus with Barbara Marinacci

Review archived from Howard's cancer-research.net March 04, 2012

The first authorized biography of Dr. Max Gerson, according to Nobel Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer, “the most eminent medical genius to ever walk among us.” Dr. Gerson’s extraordinary life, including how he developed his amazing therapy, applied it successfully to many diseases, while remaining just ahead of the Nazis’ march across pre-WWII Europe. Gerson’s work with scientists as varied as Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Europe’s preeminent thoracic surgeon, and Yale Prof. Irving Fisher, America’s leading economist; his unique presentation of ten cured terminal cancer patients to the United States Senate in 1946; his struggle against the economic forces of the AMA, the tobacco and pharmaceutical companies; his startling successes with previously “incurable” diseases. Never-before told stories of the most unacknowledged giant of medical history. Second edition, with updated “Legacy” section and new index.