Socially Engaged, Socially Relevant Acupuncture Theory
Reading list
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Recommended titles if you want to learn more on these topics:
Liberation Studies
- Gloria Anzaldua - The Bridge Called My Back & Borderlands
- Ignacio Martin Baro - Writings for a Liberation Psychology
- Frantz Fanon - A Dying Colonialism & The Wretched of the Earth
- Michael Focualt - The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception & Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity
- Ivone Gebara - Longing for Running Water
- bell hooks - Killing Rage, Bone Black, All About Love: New Visions & Feminism From Margin to Center
- Kwok Pui Lan - Post Colonial Imagination & Feminist Theology
- Nur Masalha & Lisa Isherwood - Theologies of Liberation Palestine-Israel
- John McKnight - The Careless Society
- Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized
- Aurora Levins Morales - Kindlings: Writings on the Body & Medicine Stories
- Mary Watkins & Helene Shulman - Toward Psychologies of Liberation
Liberation Theology
- Gustavo Gutiérrez - A Theology of Liberation, We Drink from Our Own Wells, The Power of the Poor in History, Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ & The Density of the Present: Selected Writings. Also Gustavo Gutiérrez: Essential Writings (edited by James B.Nickoloff)
- Juan Luis Segundo - The Liberation of Theology, A Theology for the Artisans of a New Humanity & Jesus of Nazareth Yesterday and Today
- Leonardo Boff - Liberating Grace, Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church, New Evangelization, Ecology and Liberation & Introducing Liberation Theology
- Jon Sobrino - Christology at the Crossroads & Jesus in Latin America
- José Míguez Bonino - Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation, Toward a Christian Politics Ethics & Faces of Jesus: Latin American Christologies
- Robert McAfee Brown - Liberation Theology — An Introductory Guide
- Norbert F. Lohfink - Option for the Poor: The Basic Principle of Liberation Theology In the Light of the Bible
- Edward L. Cleary - Born of the Poor & Crisis and Change
- Alfred Hennell - Liberation Theologies: The Global Pursuit of Justice
- Phillip Berryman - Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts
- Christian Smith - The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory
Boston Liberation Health reading list
Paulo Freire documentary Seeing Through Paulo's Glasses
Greg Jones' A Radical History of Acupuncture in America is a free download on the POCA forum.
An inteview with Sr. Eileen McKenzie about her practice and Liberation Acupuncture

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