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see Eileen Mullan to John Bonica, June 23, 1973, box 66, folder 33, Bonica Papers; for “Dear John …,” see Frank Moya, MD, anesthesiology, Miami, to Bonica, November 1972, Bonica Papers, UCLA; on Bonica, see John J. Bonica, “Acupuncture Anesthesia in the People’s Republic of China: Implications for American Medicine,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
228 (1974): 1544–51.
    59 . John Bonica, “Trip to the People’s Republic of China,” June–July 1973, box 66, folder 52, Bonica Papers.
    60 . Ibid.
    61 . For “the gate [control] …” and “acupuncture analgesia …,” see Harry Nelson, “Researchers Agree on One Point—Acupuncture Works,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 15, 1973, A1; for one important analysis of East-West tensions as played out in conceptualizations of the body, see Shigehisa Kuriyama,
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
(New York: Zone Books, 2002).
    62 . For “I am certain …,” Secretary of Health, South Dakota, to John Bonica, July 1973, Box 66, Folder 23 (“Acupuncture in other states, 1973–74”), John Bonica Papers; Tom Read, “UW Medic Back from China with Prescription for Future,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, July 12, 1973, D1.
    63 . Ibid.
    64 . “Needling the China Watchers,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 18, 1973, 8. See also Jeremi Suri, “Détente and Its Discontents,” in
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
, ed. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008); for “one doctor who …,” see “Needling the China Watchers.”
    65 . Box 66, folder 52, Bonica Papers, UCLA. In a letter to the editor of the
Washington Post
(which had misrepresented his views from a
JAMA
article), Bonica wrote, “Since relief of pain and response to treatment are influenced bymany factors, including culture, tradition, education, and background, and because acupuncture is a new therapeutic modality in American medicine, it is essential that it be tested in American patients using well established scientific principles.” John Bonica, “Acupuncture’s Efficacy,”
Washington Post
, July 10, 1974, A31. Asked by
U.S. News and World Report
in 1974, “Dr. Bonica, what is pain? Can science actually define the sensation?” he responded, “If you ask 100 different authorities that question, you would get 100 different answers.” See interview transcript, Box 133, folder 5, Bonica Papers, UCLA.
    66 . For “real” pain, see Baszanger,
Inventing Pain Medicine
, 59; on gate control theory, the
British Medical Journal
concluded that, despite its vagueness as to mechanisms, Melzack and Wall had “enshrined a major medical concept and it has had a powerful impact on research, theory, and treatment.” “The Gate Control Theory of Pain,”
British Medical Journal
2 (August 26, 1978): 586–87; See also Sheri Emond, “Therapy Works Where Surgery Fails,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 14, 1980, V5.
    67 . One study that framed developments in pain management in explicitly political terms—albeit framed by the micropolitics of the doctor-patient relationship—was S. Y. Fagerhaugh and Y. Shizuko,
Politics of Pain Management: Staff-Patient Interaction
(Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, Health Sciences Division, 1977); Philip Sechzer, “Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA): A Retrospective,”
Anesthesiology
72 (1990): 735–36. See also M. Keeri-Szanto, “Apparatus for Demand Analgesia,”
Canadian Anaesthesiology Society Journal
18 (1971): 581–82; Philip H. Sechzer, “Objective Measurement of Pain,”
Anesthesiology
29 (1968): 209–10; J. S. Scott, “Obstetric Analgesia,”
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
106 (1970): 959–78; for Demand Dropmaster, see