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Medicine’s Rebel Child - Osteopathy through the ages

Ed Paget 4 Episodes Sep 11, 2026

Medicine's Rebel Child is a podcast about the misunderstood history of osteopathy. It explores Andrew Taylor Still's holistic vision and the research that has been overlooked by mainstream medicine. The host, Ed Paget, uses AI to break down dense academic articles into easy-to-understand summaries. Each episode brings forward lost philosophies and frontier origins of osteopathy, emphasizing that health is more than the absence of disease.

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The Mind of Dr Still: Rethinking Reasoning, Thinking and Philosophy Sep 11, 2026 1258 To learn more about Richard Douglas's 3 day workshop or 4 hour introductory sessions please contact Ed Paget directly via email: ed@edpaget.com

The Discovery Of Osteopathy: From Logs to Hogs, Mexican Freighters to Blushing Brides. Sep 1, 2026 3196 This episode explores the unconventional, journey of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still toward discovering Osteopathic Manual Medicine (OMM). The episode draws on an essay written by Jason Haxton, who is the director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, Missouri. It details how Dr. Still's philosophy did not emerge overnight, but from a series of personal encounters and frontier medical cases

Early Osteopathy, Native American Traditions, and Neuroscience May 4, 2026 2917 This podcast is based on the article by Zegarra-Parodi et al (2019) The Native American heritage of the body-mind-spirit paradigm in osteopathic principles and practices. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1746068919300793We explore the deep, often overlooked connections between Native American traditional healing and the foundations of osteopathic medicine. We discuss how A.T. St

How Osteopathy Erased It's Soul Mar 6, 2026 3073 This podcast highlights an academic review published in the journal Healthcare, 2024, that compares the 1897 and 1908 editions of Andrew Taylor Still’s autobiography to track the early evolution of osteopathy in America. The authors argue that revisions made to the second edition reflects a deliberate attempt to standardize the profession and gain legal recognition within a rapidly formalizing bio

Beyond Agnostic MSK-Reclaiming the Soul of Osteopathy Aug 17, 2026 1286 In this provocative episode, we dive into a groundbreaking 2025 perspective paper published in Healthcare. As manual therapy professions increasingly rely on identical research, a worrying trend has emerged: some academics advocate for an "agnostic" musculoskeletal (MSK) care model. This approach flattens the differences between osteopathy, chiropractic, and physiotherapy into a generic biopsychos

Medicine’s Rebel Child - Osteopathy through the ages

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