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Needled

How Acupuncture Conquered America

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Needled

著者: Emily Baum
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The modern history of acupuncture and its enormous popularity in the United States, examining our ever-changing relationship with “alternative” medicine

Since acupuncture first burst into the Western popular consciousness in the 1970s,the public has clamored to try it and doctors have struggled with what to make of it. Thousands of studies and millions of dollars have been poured into determining how and why the practice works to treat pain and other ailments—but it remains, officially, a mystery. That hasn’t stopped its growth; now a multimillion-dollar industry and often recommended by physicians and covered by insurance, acupuncture in the United States is more popular than ever. So why has it never been able to shake the label of “alternative” medicine, and what does that designation even mean?

To investigate acupuncture’s outsider status, Emily Baum traces the practice’s contentious trajectory over the past fifty years. Soon after the first Western journalists and doctors were invited to visit a newly reopening communist China, acupuncture became an overnight American sensation, as well as a thorn in the side of the pain-management industry, the object of parapsychological fascination, and a critical diplomatic tool for the new Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping. Even as acupuncture became commonplace over the following decades, it remained alternative as a result of lingering Cold War suspicions and a fundamental lack of consensus among medical experts.

Moving from the bold experimentations of the twentieth century to the hospital rooms of today, Needled uncovers the surprising history of how acupuncture became marginalized within establishment medicine—exposing, in the process, the uncomfortable shortcomings of modern medical knowledge and how we behave when we encounter those limits.
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"Who knew the ancient art of acupuncture could be so fraught with geopolitical rivalry and scientific controversy! This book peels back to the layers of recent history to unpack how the practice of medicine— even the very experience of pain— is continuously interpreted through foreign policy and racial identity. The result is a very readable and, at times, dramatic, accounting of U.S.-China relations through an unexpected and quirky lens: acupuncture." —Emily Feng, author of Our Hearts Burned for Home
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