“It’s First Aid!”: Tracing the Global Transmission of a Five-Point Ear Acupuncture Treatment

Research Talk Series, Fall 2020

Speaker: Eana Meng, MPhil Student, University of Cambridge, UK

Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center

This is the second part of a two-part video series titled "In the Hands of the Revolutionaries and Communities: A Social History of Acupuncture.". To see the trailer, first video, bibliography, and further reading list, please visit: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/hands-...

Bio: Eana Meng is a historian of medicine and a physician in training. Her research has traced the lesser known histories of the use of acupuncture by American activists (including those in the Black revolutionary movement) since the 1970s and the legacies that emerge from them, which include a five point ear acupuncture protocol currently used around the world for substance use and behavior health conditions. She is interested in the histories that sit at the intersection of radical politics of health, integrative/alternative healing modalities, community healthcare, the opioid crisis and pain, and crucial dimensions of race, gender, and class. She runs a blog at https://www.ofpartandparcel.com/.
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Vision of Persistence by Kevin MacLeod
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