Alpay: "Health Hazards": Health Hazards Periodically, these Utopian medical practices are given publicity by the press when some controversy arises. All of Austria held its breath in August 1995, watching the politico-legal drama of the Pilhar family. The family were members of the Fiat Lux cult, whose female guru, Erika Bertschinger (called Uriella), was a resident of Switzerland. When Helmut Pilhar fled abroad with his daughter Olivia, who was six years old and suffering from a serious renal tumor, the President and the Chancellor of Austria intervened. Uriella had directed the Pilhar family to have the girl treated by a Cologne doctor from the cult, named Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer. Dr. Hamer had been prohibited from practicing medicine in Germany and Austria, and was even termed a “charlatan” by Dr. Juergessen, the original doctor who had been rendering “conventional” medical treatment to the child. Efforts were made to persuade the father to have his daughter treated only by qualified medical practitioners, and to give up the magical practices promoted by Uriella. The political, legal and human drama caused the matter to become an obsession with the press. The publicity surrounding this case contributed to the reappearance in the general public of myths developed by cults for serious diseases like cancer and AIDS, where prayer and healing groups have always had a strong appeal, in part because of conventional medicine’s relative inability to cure certain serious diseases.

Periodically, these Utopian medical practices are given publicity by the press when some controversy arises. All of Austria held its breath in August 1995, watching the politico-legal drama of the Pilhar family. The family were members of the Fiat Lux cult, whose female guru, Erika Bertschinger (called Uriella), was a resident of Switzerland. When Helmut Pilhar fled abroad with his daughter Olivia, who was six years old and suffering from a serious renal tumor, the President and the Chancellor of Austria intervened. Uriella had directed the Pilhar family to have the girl treated by a Cologne doctor from the cult, named Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer. Dr. Hamer had been prohibited from practicing medicine in Germany and Austria, and was even termed a “charlatan” by Dr. Juergessen, the original doctor who had been rendering “conventional” medical treatment to the child. Efforts were made to persuade the father to have his daughter treated only by qualified medical practitioners, and to give up the magical practices promoted by Uriella. The political, legal and human drama caused the matter to become an obsession with the press. The publicity surrounding this case contributed to the reappearance in the general public of myths developed by cults for serious diseases like cancer and AIDS, where prayer and healing groups have always had a strong appeal, in part because of conventional medicine’s relative inability to cure certain serious diseases.

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