Now in its 2nd edition, An Introduction to Western Medical Acupuncture provides a broad evidence-based approach to acupuncture when used as part of modern medicine. Illustrated throughout it gives the practitioner an essential guide for deciding where and how to treat conditions with acupuncture, and how to avoid known risks associated with it. Ultimately it provides the practitioner with a tool to develop safe and effective practice. For this edition, the text has been revised, updated, and extensively rewritten. A new chapter brings together the understanding of how pain is recognized by the nervous system, and how acupuncture can influence these pathways. This is followed by six chapters providing detailed explanations of the effects and mechanisms of acupuncture, organized according to three recognized treatment approaches � needling to produce local changes, generating effects at the level of the spinal segment, and modifying the overall function of the nervous system. The chapters on the evidence from research have been also updated.//Author Information By Adrian White, MA MD BM BCh DipMedAc, Clinical Research Fellow (retired), Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK; (formerly) Editor in Chief, Acupuncture in Medicine.; Mike Cummings, MB ChB DipMedAc, Medical Director, British Medical Acupuncture Society, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, London, UK, and Jacqueline Filshie, MBBS FRCA DipMedAC, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK