Medical education in North America was shaped by a biomedically bounded framework dating back to the early nineteenth century. Yet, one renowned physician, William Osler (1849-1919), seemed to stand out among his contemporaries by promoting acupuncture as a form of treatment. Some physicians in the early 1970s proposed that Osler was ahead of his time by including acupuncture in his medical textbook,
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