Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (EPUB)

by Rachel Pagones
In November 1970, an amalgam of radical activists took over a section of the notorious Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx of New York. From that action an innovative drug detoxification program evolved. The program became a movement, led by Black and Latinx Americans, that sought to employ acupuncture as a means to transform not only the heroin addiction ravaging their communities, but the capitalism, colonialism, and “chemical warfare” it saw as causative factors. Acupuncture as Revolution traces the history of revolutionary acupuncture in the United States – from its origins in the radicalism of the 1960s to its modern manifestation in the community acupuncture movement.