Use of Acupuncture by 1970s Revolutionaries of Color: The South Bronx "Toolkit Care" Concept.
Am J Public Health
; 111(5): 896-906, 2021 05.
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ABSTRACT
Failed by mainstream medical institutions, 1970s revolutionaries of color sought to take health care into their own hands. A lesser-known phenomenon was their use of acupuncture. In 1970, an alliance of Black, Latinx, and White members at Lincoln Detox, a drug treatment program in the South Bronx area of New York City, learned of acupuncture as an alternative to methadone. In Oakland, California, Tolbert Small, MD, used acupuncture for pain management following his exposure to the practice as part of a 1972 Black Panther Party delegation to China. Unaware of one another then, the Lincoln team and Small were similarly driven to "serve the people, body and soul." They enacted "toolkit care,"-self-assembled, essential community care-in response to dire situations such as the intensifying drug crisis. These stories challenge the traditional American history of acupuncture and contribute innovations to and far beyond the addiction field by presenting a holistic model of prevention and care. They advance a nuanced definition of integrative medicine as one that combines medical and social practices, and their legacies are currently carried out by thousands of health care practitioners globally.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Terapia por Acupuntura
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Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Public Health
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Reino Unido