History of Acupuncture:
Unschuld P. Medicine in China: A History of Ideas (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care). University of California Press, 1988.
Imrie RH, Ramey DW, Buell PD, Ernst E, Basser SP. “Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship: Claims for the Antiquity of Acupuncture” The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 2001, 5: 133-9.
Imrie, RH, Ramey DW, Buell PD. “Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship: The ‘Traditions’ of Acupuncture and TCM.” The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 2003-4. 7:61-8.
Basser S. “Acupuncture: A History” The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 1999. 3: 34-41.
Imrie R, Ramey D, Buell P. “Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship, Part III: Politics , Popularity, and the Promotion of TCM” The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 2005. 9: 69-74.
Acupuncture for Heart Surgery:
Posner G and Sampson W. “Chinese Acupuncture for Heart Surgery Anesthesia” The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 3:2, p. 15-19. 1999.
Posner G. Questioning Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld’s China Acupuncture Story, Skeptical Inquirer. 1999: Vol. 23 No. 4.
Mao not believing in acupuncture:
Zhi-Sui, Li. The Private Life of Chairman Mao. Random House, 1996.
Origin of ear acupuncture:
“Organ Representation on Extremities” on the American Acupuncture website.
http://www.americanacupuncture.com/ear_ac.htm. Accessed Oct 21 2008.
James Reston’s Appendectomy:
James Reston. “Now, About My Operation in Peking” New York Times, July 26, 1971.
Current status of acupuncture in China.
Beyerstein B and Sampson W.“Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICP Delegation” (Part 1). Skeptical Inquirer. 1997.
http://www.csicop.org/si/9607/china.htmlBeyerstein B and Sampson W. “Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 2)” Skeptical Inquirer, 1996.
http://www.csicop.org/si/9609/china.htmlSham acupuncture studies, research methods, meta-analyses:
Bausell, RB. Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ulett’s research:
Ulett, GA and Han, S. The Biology of Acupuncture. Warren H. Green, 2001.
Preponderance of positive studies from China:
Vickers A, Goyal N, Harland R, Rees R. “Do certain countries produce only positive results? A systematic review of controlled trials.” Control Clin Trials, 1998: 19(2):159-66.
Excuse for not using placebo controls:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=44Why ineffective treatments seem to work:
Beyerstein B. “Psychology and ‘Alternative Medicine’: Social and Judgmental Biases That Make Inert Treatments Seem to Work.” The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 1999. Vol 3.
http://www.sram.org/0302/bias.htmlBeyerstein B. “Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work”
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altbelief.htmlGeneral:
Singh,S and Ernst, E. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine. W.W. Norton, 2008.
Bausell, RB. Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Carroll, R. “Acupuncture” The Skeptic’s Dictionary.
http://skepdic.com/acupunc.htmlAcupuncture Watch website.
http://www.acuwatch.org/Barrett, S. “Be Wary of Acupuncture, Qigong, and ‘Chinese Medicine’”
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/acu.htmlImrie, Robert. “Acupuncture: The Facts.” 2005. PowerPoint presentation available online at
http://drspinello.com/altmed/acuvet/acuvet_files/frame.htm