Clinic of Hope: The Story of Rene Caisse and Essiac

A published biography of Rene Caisse and her Essiac clinic. ISBN confirmed via direct fetch of the Google Books catalog record (books.google.com/books/about/Clinic_of_Hope.html?id=8iWsI8l4LpQC, redirected to books.google.fi) 2026-08-17, which lists title, author, publisher, year, and both ISBN-10 (1550025201) and ISBN-13 (978-1-55002-520-0) forms. The publisher's own book description, displayed on that same Google Books page and independently corroborated (with minor wording variance: the Google Books copy prefixes the sentence with "Rene") on the book's Goodreads listing (goodreads.com/book/show/21389968-clinic-of-hope), both fetched directly 2026-08-17, states: "Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy that still persists since her death in 1978." This is the basis for this case's `died_year: 1978` on the Practitioner entity; the book's full interior text was not independently fetched, so only this publisher-description sentence is relied upon, not any other specific claim from the book.