The Untold/Hidden History of Western Medicine--Part 2.

In this second part of my editorial on the untold/hidden history of Western medicine, I look at the many efforts of the past 2 centuries to balance disease medicine with health medicine. Many brave and visionary men and women founded and promoted health medicine movements, but few were successful. I present here an overview of the key movements, why most failed, and what changed to allow health medicine (by whatever name) to finally endure.