Richard Moskowitz

Richard Moskowitz, M. D.

Born 1938, raised in Northern New Jersey

Lives in Boston area

Currently in solo practice, Watertown, MA

Education:

Harvard (B. A., 1959), Biochemical Sciences, cum laude in General Studies Undergraduate thesis: "Nuclear Weapons Tests and their Hazards to Man"

Research Traineeship in Biochemistry, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

New York University School of Medicine, M. D.,1963

University of Colorado, Graduate Fellowship in Philosophy, 1963-65

Internship and Licensure:

Internship in general medicine (Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Surgery, OB/GYN,

and Emergency Medicine), St. Anthony's Hospital, Denver, 1966-67

Medical Licensure: Colorado (1967), NY (1969), NM (1975), MA (1983).

Medical Practice:

General and family medicine, 1967-present

Patient education and advocacy, self-care model

Classical homeopathy:

Attended NCH Postgraduate Course, 1974, 1975

Studied with Prof. George Vithoulkas, Athens, 1974, 1982, 1990

Studied with Dr. Rajan Sankaran, et al., Bombay, 1995, 1996, 1999

Home birth: attended approx. 600 births, 1969-1982

Natural therapies: nutrition, herbs, meditation, and psychotherapy

Acupuncture:

Studied with Sensei Masahilo Nakazono, Third Civilization, Santa Fe, 1974

Currently in solo practice, Watertown, MA

Teaching:

NCH Postgraduate Course, 1978-1992

IFH Professional Course, Boston and Seattle

Has lectured extensively, given seminars, and supervised other homeopaths

Organizational Work:

Board Member, National Center for Homeopathy (NCH), 1980-87

President,1985-1986

Board Member, American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), 2007-present

Secretary, 2009-present

Published writings:

2 Books:

Homeopathic Medicines for Pregnancy and Childbirth, North Atlantic, Berkeley, 1992

Resonance: The Homeopathic Point of View, Xlibris, Philadelphia, 2001

About 100 articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, etc., including

"Homeopathic Reasoning," 1980

"The Case Against Immunizations," 1983

"Some Thoughts on the Malpractice Crisis," 1988

"Vaccination: a Sacrament of Modern Medicine," 1992

"Childhood Ear Infections," 1993

"Ethics in Homeopathic Practice," 1994

"Why I Became a Homeopath," 1995

"The Fundamentalist Controversy," 2004

"Hidden in Plain Sight: the Role of Vaccines in Chronic Disease," 2005

"Diagnosis," 2009

"Vaccines, Drugs, and Other Causes: a Homeopath Looks at the Medical

System," 2010

"For Homeopathy: a Practicing Physician's Perspective," 2011

Website: www.doctorrmosk.com

Bibliography

Books.

1. Homeopathic Medicines for Pregnancy and Childbirth, 288 pp., Index, North Atlantic, Berkeley, 1992; German version, Homöopathie für Schwangerschaft und Geburtshilfe, Haug, Heidelberg, 1998.

2. Resonance: The Homeopathic Point of View, 372 pp., with Epilogue & Appendix, Xlibris, Philadelphia, 2001; German version, Das Resonanzgesetz der Heilung, Kai Kröger Verlag, Groß Wittensee, 2012.

3. Plain Doctoring: Selected Writings, 1983-2013, 397 pp., with Bibliography, CreateSpace, Charleston, SC, 2013.

4. More Doctoring: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1977-2014, CreateSpace, 2014.

Articles.

1. “Drug Reactions and Biological Individuality,” Homeotherapy 3:1, August 1977.

2. “When Not to Give a Remedy,” Journal of the AIH 73:11, March 1980.

3. “Homeopathic Remedies vs. the Placebo Effect,” Homeotherapy 6:99, July-August 1980.

4. “Homeopathic Reasoning,” Lecture to Symposium, “Homeopathy: the Renaissance of Cure, San Francisco, April 1980; published in Homeotherapy 6:135, September 1980.

5. “Two Obstetrical Remedies,” Homeopathy Today, July 1981.

6. “Homeopathic Remedies in Pregnancy and Childbirth,” Homeopathy Today, January 1983.

7. “Magnesia Phosphorica,” Homeopathy Today, February 1983.

8. “The Case Against Immunizations,” Journal of the AIH 76:7, March 1983; reprinted as NCH and UK Society of Homœpaths pamphlets; included in Robert Mendelsohn, ed., Dissent in Medicine, Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1985.

9. “Vague, Long-­Term Diagnosis: the Nocebo Effect,” Journal of the AIH 76:26, March 1983.

10. “Peculiar and Characteristic Symptoms,” Homeopathy Today, April 1983.

11. “Postscript on Immunizations,” Journal of the AIH 76:101, September 1983.

12. “Unvaccinated Kids: What’s Next for Them (and Us)?” Mothering Magazine, January 1987.

13. “AIDS: Chronic Immune Failure,” Resonance (Journal of the International Foundation for Homeopathy), January 1988.

14. “Some Thoughts on the Malpractice Crisis,” British Homœopathic Journal 77:17, January 1988; reprinted in Journal of the AIH 81:22, March 1988, and The Homœopath (Journal of the UK Society of Homeopaths), September 1992.

15. “What Is Homeopathy?” in Robin Larsen, ed., Emanuel Swedenborg: a Continuing Vision, Swedenborg Foundation, New York, 1988, p. 475.

16. “Is There More than One Correct Remedy?” Resonance, January 1989.

17. “More on Similia Similibus Curentur,” Journal of the AIH 82:22, March 1989.

18. “Hospital Ethics Committees: the Healing Function,” HEC Forum 1:309, January 1990; reprinted in Stuart Spicker, ed., The Hospital Ethics Committee Experience, Kluwer, 1998.

19. “Options in Homeopathic Self-Care,” East­West Journal, January 1990.

20. “Two Childbirth Remedies,” Journal of the AIH 83:72, September 1990; reprinted in British Homœopathic Journal 79:206, October 1990; German version, Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, 1991.

21. “Whose Life Is It, Anyway? Some Thoughts about the Doctor-Patient Relationship,” Chrysalis (Journal of the Swedenborg Foundation) 6:103, Summer 1991.

22. “Vaccination: a Sacrament of Modern Medicine,” lecture to the Society of Homeopaths Annual Conference, 1991; published in Journal of the AIH 84:96, December 1991; reprinted in The Homœopath 12:137, March 1992.

23. “Ethics in Homeopathic Practice,” lecture to the AIH Conference, 1993; published in Journal of the AIH 86:238, December 1993.

24. “Vaccinations,” in Barbara Katz Rothman, ed., Encyclopedia of Childbearing, Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1993.

25. “Childhood Ear Infections,” lecture to the AIH Conference, 1994; published in Journal of the AIH 87:137, Autumn 1994; reprinted in The Homœopath, 1994.

26. “Homeopathy,” with Jennifer Jacobs, M. D., in Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Marc Micozzi, ed., Churchill Livingstone, London, 1995.

27. “Plain Doctoring,” Resonance 19:30, March-April 1997.

28. “Hahnemann’s Achievement and Legacy,” Lecture at the Dedication of the Hahnemann Monument, Washington, D. C., spring 2000; published in American Homeopath 6:65, Summer 2000.

29. “To Have and Have Not: Homeopathy in Cuba,” Journal of the AIH 93:59, Summer 2000; reprinted in Homeopathy Today, July-August 2000, and New England Journal of Homeopathy 9:115, Spring-Summer 2000.

30. “Illness as Metaphor (with Apologies to Susan Sontag),” Journal of the AIH 94:176, Autumn 2001.

31. “Innovation and Fundamentalism in Homeopathy,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine (formerly Journal of the AIH) 95:91, Summer 2002; reprinted in Simillimum (Journal of Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians) 15:17, Fall 2002.

32. “Epiphany: the Quantum Mechanics of the Spiritual Life,” published as “Housecalls,” Chrysalis Reader, Swedenborg Foundation, New York, December 2002.

33. “The Fundamentalist Controversy: an Issue That Won’t Go Away,” lecture to Society of Homeopaths Annual Conference, Keele, UK, May 2003; published in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 97:28, Spring 2004, reprinted in The Homeopath, Winter 2004.

34. “Hidden in Plain Sight: the Rôle of Vaccines in Chronic Disease,” lecture to the 60th LIGA Congress, Berlin, 2005; published in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 98:15, Spring 2005.

35. “Advisory on Bird Flu,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 99:16, Spring 2006.

36. “Diagnosis,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 102:7, Spring 2009, and 102:56, Summer 2009; reprinted in Medical Studies (Netherlands) 2:121, 2010.

37. “Vaccines, Drugs, and Other Causes: a Homeopath Looks at the Medical System,” lecture to 65th LIGA Congress, Los Angeles, May 2010; published in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 103:214, Winter 2010, and 104:13, Spring 2011.

38. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Vaccines as a Major Risk Factor for Chronic Disease,” abridged version of op. cit., AJHM, 2005, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 106:107, Fall 2013.

39. “Some Thoughts on the Beginnings of Life,” Spectrum of Homeopathy (Germany) Spring 2013; reprinted in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 106:147, Winter 2013.

Case Reports.

1. “Plague and Pregnancy: a Case Report,” with Jonathan Mann, M. D., Journal of the American Medical Association 237:1854, 25 April 1977.

2. “A Sampling of Animal Cases,” Homœopathic Links 16:15, Spring 2003.

3. “A Wound Heals - after 25 Years,” Homeopathy Today, February 2007.

4. “A 42 Year Old Man with Bronchiectasis, Among Other Things,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 102:78, Summer 2009.

5. “An Autistic Boy,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 102:117, Autumn 2009.

6. “A Woman with Lupus, and a Whole Lot More,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 103:22, Spring 2010.

Reviews.

1. Book Review: Dana Ullman and Stephen Cummings, Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines, Homeopathy Today, March 1985.

2. Book Review: Adelaide Suits, Brass Tacks: an Oral Biography, Homeopathy Today, December 1985.

3. Book Review: Alain Horvilleur, The Family Guide to Homeopathy, Homeopathy Today, May 1987.

4. Conference Review: “The Scientific Sessions,” 42nd LIGA Congress, Washington, May 1987, Homeopathy Today, July-August 1987.

5. Book Review: Larry Dossey, Beyond Illness, Chrysalis 4:117, Spring 1989.

6. Book Review: Catherine Coulter, Portraits of Homeopathic Medicines, Volume 2, Homeopathy Today, April 1989.

7. Book Review: George Vithoulkas, A New Model of Health and Disease, Homeopathy Today, January 1993.

8. Book Review: George Vithoulkas, Materia Medica Viva, Volume 1, Journal of the AIH 86:257, December 1993.

9. Book Review: Harris Coulter, The Controlled Clinical Trial, Journal of the AIH 86:254, December 1993.

10. Book Review: Roger Morrison, Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms, Homeopathy Today, January 1994.

11. Video Review: Julian Winston, The Faces of Homeopathy, Journal of the AIH 88:158, Spring 1995.

12. Book Review: Nancy Herrick, Animal Mind, Human Voices: Provings of Eight New Animal Remedies, Homeopathy Today, January 1999.

13. Book Review: Roger Morrison, Desktop Guide to Physical Pathology, Homeopathy Today, April 1999.

14. Book Review: Julian Winston, The Faces of Homeopathy, Homeopathy Today, October 1999.

15. Book Review: Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman, Rage-Free Kids, Homeopathy Today, July-August 2000.

16. Book Review: A. U. Ramakrishnan and Catherine Coulter, A Homeopathic Approach to Cancer, Homeopathy Today, November 2001; reprinted in Homœopathic Links 15:60, Spring 2002.

17. Book Review: Julian Winston, The Heritage of Homeopathic Literature, Homeopathy Today, April-May 2002.

18. Book Review: Isaac Golden, Vaccination & Homeoprophylaxis, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 99:149, Summer 2006.

19. Seminar Review: Russell Malcolm, “Introduction to Homeopathy” and “The Bowel Nosodes,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 102:27, Spring 2009.

20. Book Review: Dana Ullman, The Homeopathic Revolution, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Therapies 16:517, April 2010.

21. Book Review: Massimo Mangialavori, Praxis, Spectrum of Homeopathy, 2010, p. 134; reprinted in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 104: 218, Winter 2011.

22. Book Review: Catherine Coulter, “The Power of Vision: a Life of Samuel Hahnemann,” Spectrum, Spring 2012; reprinted in Homeopathy Today, Spring 2012.

23. Book Review: Rajan Sankaran, The Synergy in Homeopathy, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 105:138, Autumn 2012.

24. Seminar Review: Karl Robinson, et al., “Prafull Vijayakar’s Predictive Homeopathy,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 106:56, Summer 2013.

25. Seminar Review: Prafull and Ambrish Vijayakar, “Predictive Honeopathy,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 107:77, Summer 2014.

26. Book Review: Karl Robinson, Small Doses, Big Results, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 107:145, Autumn 2014.

Obituaries

1. “Henry Waters, 1899-1986,” Homeopathy Today, July-August 1986.

2. “Elinore Peebles, 1897-1992,” Homeopathy Today, October 1992.

3. “Maesimund Panos, M. D., 1912-1999: Stateswoman, Friend, Mother of Us All,” Homeopathy Today, October 1999.

4. “Julian Winston, 1941-2005, In Loving Memory,” Homeopathy Today, July August 2005.

5. “Christine Luthra, M. D. (1951-2006): Dedicated Homeopath, Dear Friend, and Inspiration to Many,” Homeopathy Today, November December 2006.

6. “Harris Coulter, Ph. D. (1932-2009): Devoted Scholar, Keen Intellect, Soldier for the Cause,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 103:7, Spring 2010.

7. “David Warkentin (1951-2010): An Appreciation,” American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 103: 179, Winter 2010.

8. “Catherine Coulter (1934-2014): A Remembrance,” Homeopathy Today, Summer 2014.

Political Statements.

1. “On Lay Prescribing,” Homeopathy Today, April 1982.

2. President’s Message, Homeopathy Today, June 1985.

3. President’s Message, “Lay Practice,” Homeopathy Today, October 1985.

4. President’s Message, Homeopathy Today, January 1986.

5. “Homeopathy on the Line,” Homeopathy Today, April 1986.

6. President’s Report, Homeopathy Today, September 1986.

7. Open Letter to President Clinton, Homeopathy Today, February 1993.

Letters and Rebuttals.

1. “The Great Malpractice Scandal,” Santa Fe Reporter, 16 April 1981.

2. Open Letter to Prof. Harold Morowitz, in reply to his article, “Much Ado about Nothing,” in Hospital Practice, July 1982, Homeopathy Today, October 1982.

3. Reply to letter from John Coker, Homeopathy Today, September 1984.

4. Letter to the Editor, “Sample Living Will Addendum,” Journal of the AIH 85:10, March 1992.

5. Open Letter to Gerald Weissman, M. D., in reply to his article, “Dancing with Fairies, Sucking with Vampires,” in MD Magazine, November 1992, Homeopathy Today, March 1993.

6. “Animal Testing in Homeopathy,” Open Letter to Jennifer Jacobs, M. D., and the Homeopathic Research Network, Journal of the AIH 88:8, Spring 1995.

7. “More on Vaccinations,” Letter to the Editor, Mothering Magazine, Spring 1997.

8. Reply to letter from Domenick Masiello, D. O., Homeopathy Today, December 2000.

9. “For Homeopathy: a Practicing Physician’s Perspective,” in rebuttal to Kevin Smith’s article, “Against Homeopathy: a Utilitarian Perspective,” in Bioethics (UK), February 2011, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 104:125, Autumn 2011; German version, Homöopathie Zeitschrift, 2012, p. 99.

Lectures.

1. “Homeopathic Reasoning,” lecture to Symposium, “Homeopathy: the Renaissance of Cure, San Francisco, April 1980; published in Homeotherapy 6:135, September 1980.

2. “Whose Birth Is It, Anyway?” lecture to Cæsarean Prevention Movement Conference, Newark, 1984; CPM videotape.

3. “What Homeopathy Can Teach, and What It Has to Learn,” lecture to NCH Annual Conference, 1986, summarized in Homeopathy Today, September 1986.

4. “Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: American Homeopathy in 1987,” Lecture to NCH Annual Conference, 1987, summarized in Homeopathy Today, October 1987; NCH audiotape.

5. “How Can It All Be Done?” lecture to NCH Annual Conference, 1987, summarized in Homeopathy Today, September 1987; NCH audiotape.

6. “Beyond Curing,” Julia Green Memorial Lecture, NCH Summer School, July 1988, NCH audiotape.

7. “Vaccination: a Sacrament of Modern Medicine,” lecture to Society of Homeopaths Annual Conference (UK), 1991; published in Journal of the AIH 84:96, December 1991; reprinted in The Homœopath (UK)12:137, March 1992.

8. Homeopathic Philosophy Lecture Series, NCH Summer School, 1991,1992; NCH audio- tapes.

9. “Childhood Ear Infections,” lecture to AIH Conference, 1994; published in Journal of the AIH 87:137, Autumn 1994; reprinted in The Homœopath (UK), 1994.

10. “Illness as Conflict, Health as Resolution,” lecture to Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Annual Conference, Santa Fe, 1997, unpublished.

11. “Samuel Hahnemann: the Man and His Impact,” lecture at Centenary of the Hahnemann Monument, Washington, May 2000, AIH audiotape.

12. “Hidden in Plain Sight: the Rôle of Vaccines in Chronic Disease,” lecture to 60th LIGA Congress, Berlin, 2005; published in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 98:15, Spring 2005.

13. “Vaccines, Drugs, and Other Causes: a Homeopath Looks at the Medical System,” lecture to 65th LIGA Congress, Los Angeles, May 2010; published in American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 103:214, Winter 2010, and 104:13, Spring 2011.

Panels and Symposia.

1. “Malpractice,” Firing Line, William F. Buckley, moderator, WNET, New York, October 1982, WNET videotape.

2. Symposium, “Vaccination: The Issue of Our Time,” Mothering Magazine, Spring 1996.

3. “The Vaccination Debate,” with Andrew Weil, M. D., Natural Health Magazine, November- December 1997.

4. “Report on Bioterrorism,” AIH Bioterrorism Committee, Richard Moskowitz, M. D., Ed., American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 96:94, Summer 2003.

Miscellaneous.

1. Memoir, “Why I Became a Homeopath,” Homeopathy Today, December 1982.

2. Interview with Peggy O’Mara, Mothering Magazine, April 1988.

3. Memoir, “Why I Became a Homeopath,” Journal of the AIH 89:74, Winter 1996; reprinted in The Homœopath (UK),1997, p. 712.

4. “What Is Homeopathy?” unpublished patient handout, 1996.

5. Interview with Jane Ryan, C. N. M., New England Journal of Homeopathy 9:83, Spring- Summer 2000.

6. “Advisory on Anthrax,” unpublished patient handout, 2002.

7 “Advisory on Smallpox,” unpublished patient handout, 2002.

8. Foreword, Nancy Herrick, Sacred Plants, Human Voices: Provings of Seven New Plant Remedies, Hahnemann Clinic Publishing, San Francisco, 2003.

9. “Hidden in Plain Sight,” expanded version of op. cit., American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, 2005, unpublished.

10. “Advisory on Swine Flu,” unpublished patient handout, 2009.