Bivins, Roberta E. (2000) Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine. Science, technology and medicine in modern history . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230287518

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Abstract

When does a needle in the flesh constitute 'acupuncture', and for whom? Who were Britain's historical acupuncturists? From the exotic tales of seventeenth-century missionaries in the Far East, through reinvention at the cutting edge of adopted French clinical experimentalism, to partial assimilation into British orthodox therapeutic practice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, acupuncture in Britain has a long and fascinating history. In this original and well-researched volume, Roberta Bivins describes this history and its implications for the study of continuity and discontinuities in the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge, techniques and instrumentation. Through detailed textual analysis, examination of patient and practitioner networks in the process of medical change, and a case-study of acupuncture and the National Health Service, she looks back to ask, how have we inscribed meaning on to the therapeutic needle? And what does this tell us about technologies and their relationship to culture?

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Acupuncture -- Great Britain -- History, Transcultural medical care -- Great Britain
Series Name:	Science, technology and medicine in modern history
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:	Basingstoke
ISBN:	9780230287518
Official Date:	2000
Dates:	Date Event 2000 Published
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published

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