In November 1970, 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. Public health historians have documented the role played by the Young Lords and the Black Panthers in direct-action healthcare reform, while in acupuncture circles Dr. Michael Smith is famed for developing a technique for drug detox. Hidden behind these better-known narratives is the history of a movement, led by Black American and Latinx activists, that sought to employ acupuncture to transform the heroin addiction ravaging their communities and 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. The book compels the reader to look beyond popular conceptions of Western acupuncture while connecting the history of traditional Chinese medicine to a lineage of racial and health justice. Acupuncture as Revolution provides both acupuncturists and the integrative health movement an origin story that is a remarkable counter to the white privilege with which each is often associated. Rachel Pagones' combination of history, sociology, and science offers signals of what it might take for the dreams of a paradigm shift-from medicine's industrial priorities toward health creation-to actually become the "revolution" promised in her book's title.-John Weeks, author of the Integrator Blog and former editor-in- chief of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine With this thoughtful, well-researched and beautifully written book, Rachel Pagones provides a compelling history of the role acupuncture played in the long and continuing struggle for health and racial justice in America.-Richard Gold, PhD, LAc, cofounder of Pacific College of Health and Science An engaging and timely contribution that sheds new light on acupuncture's radical lineage and its contemporary descendants ... restores to their proper place key actors and traditions, from China's barefoot doctors to the Bronx's Young Lords.-Andrew Zitcer, author of Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism A captivating study of how radical activists, armed with an antidote to heroin withdrawal, battled with elite policymakers over inequities in health and medicine.-Jennifer A. M. Stone, senior editor, Medical Acupuncture Acupuncture as Revolution offers a trenchant social history of acupuncture, traditional Chinese Medicine, and their intersections with racial inequality, health disparities, and medical justice in the United States. -James Doucet-Battle, author of Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes Rachel Pagones is a licensed acupuncturist, educator, and author. She taught at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego, where she was department chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. She was also a clinical supervisor at the college's free clinic for seniors, fulfilling her love of working with elders from disadvantaged communities. Formerly a journalist based in London, she returned to the UK in 2021, where she continues to research, write, and practice acupuncture.