Association for the History of Chiropractic | Organisation
Association for the History of Chiropractic
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24.01.2022 Drs Ierano, Geoff Irvine, the late John Sweaney
22.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCYXaZ_PjhU&feature=youtu.be
18.01.2022 Graham Dobson; Donald McDowall
15.01.2022 Geoff Irvine, Inger Villadsen, John Sweaney (dec.)
14.01.2022 One for Dr Larry Whitman
14.01.2022 c2009, Canberra. Palmer grads Donald McDowall and the distinguished John Waterhouse who served as the peak chiropractic association's ombudsman and Asia Pacific Palmer Alumni president for decades. I have stood on shoulders, and beside, giants all of my 24 year career...
12.01.2022 How many can you name?
12.01.2022 one for Dr Charlton
11.01.2022 one of Australia's great historians: Stanley Bolton DC PhC
11.01.2022 The distinguished Dr Phillip Donato
03.01.2022 when chiropractors had 'the minerals'... Dr Donald McDowall, (and MDs had frontal man-buns)
03.01.2022 One of my favourite pics; at a Macquarie Uni graduation, Ed Deveraux and Stanley Bolton
03.01.2022 SUBSCRIBE TO THE JOURNAL today... Finding the professional identity of chiropractic in Australasia: A pragmatic narrative of the Formative Period to 1960. PHILLIP EBRALL, D.C., Ph.D., Ph. D. (Cand.)... The purpose of this pragmatic narrative is to find within the history of the emergence of chiropractic in Australasia the elements that could be considered its professional identity. The evidence supports the view that locally trained persons latched onto the idea of chiropractic when it became expedient to do so. Threads of European osteopathy and natural cures informed lay people and self-proclaimed chiropractors proliferated without any concept of the depth of meaning inherent in Palmer’s views. A sharp distinction is noted with the practice identity of North American-trained chiropractors who held that the nervous system controls the health of the body; that if anything interrupts the healthy working of nerves, the result is disease in some part of the body. The public understanding of the profession’s identity can be summarised as chiropractor, a nerve specialist, who treats disease by manipulation of the spinal column. The American- trained chiropractors did not become engaged with education in Australasia until 1974/75, meaning the local part-time attempts at training in Australia were poor and produced worthless certificates such as mutually declared diplomas of chiropractic. The local chiropractors and educators exhibited what I call The Beales Effect, where credible academic qualifications were not a concern.
