Felix Mann

Felix Mann was a German-born acupuncturist who worked in England, born on 10 April 1931 and died on 2 October 2014. He devised the system known as Scientific Acupuncture and founded the Medical Acupuncture Society, serving as its president from 1959 to 1980, and he was also the first president of the British Medical Acupuncture Society in 1980. He wrote the first comprehensive English language acupuncture textbook, Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing, first published in 1962, and received the German Pain Prize in 1995. He lectured internationally on medical acupuncture, and he distanced himself from traditional beliefs in acupuncture points and meridians.