Home PublicationsChiropractic Journal of AustraliaBack Issues: 1990-1999Volume 25 Vol.25 Issue 4

CJA Vol.25 Issue 4

Editorial: Looking Back With Pride and Forward With Confidence
MARY ANN CHANCE and ROLF E. PETERS

William C. Schulze, MD, DC (1870-1936): From Mail-Order Mechano-Therapists to Scholarship and Professionalism Among Drugless Physicians, Part 2
JOSEPH C. KEATING, Jr and WILLIAM S. REHM

On the Wings of an Angel
PHILLIP S. EBRALL

Prior Knowledge: A Consideration in Curriculum Development
JENNIFER R. JAMISON

Chiropractic and Competition Law
STANLEY P. BOLTON

The Role of the Peer Reviewed Literature As Appropriate Forum for Argument and Debate
STEPHEN OSBORNE

Commentary: Implications of Current Research Trends for the Chiropractic Profession
MAXWELL J. WALSH

William C. Schulze, MD, DC (1870-1936: From Mail-Order Mechano-Therapists to Scholarship and Professionalism Among Drugless Physicians, Part 2.

JOSEPH C. KEATING, Jr and WILLIAM S. REHM

The career of William C. Schulze, MD, DC has had a profound, albeit largely forgotten, effect upon the chiropractic profession. As the second president of the National College of Chiropractic, he led his school from its early correspondence programs toward higher standards of scholarship. His broad-scope orientation earned harsh criticism among some straight chiropractors, but commanded respect from a substantial segment of the profession. In this second of two parts, we consider Schulze's activist role among college and professional leaders. The traditions he fathered set the stage for the chiropractic profession's educational reforms in the 1930s and beyond, and despite his death in 1936, the intellectual traditions nurtured the subsequent work of chiropractc scholars such as Joseph Janse and Roy W. Hildebrandt.

INDEX TERMS: (MeSH) CHIROPRACTIC HISTORY; HISTORY-OF-MEDICINE, 20TH CENTURY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Chiropractic J Aust 1995 Dec;25(4):22-8

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On the Wings of an Angel.

PHILLIP S. EBRALL

This paper reviews the birth of the chiropractic angel, considers its name, and demonstrates that, through its utilisation in this centennial year as both an adornment on centennial paraphernalia and as an inclusion within the logos of at least three chiropractic institutions, it retains a prominence within the chiropractic profession as a recognised emblem.

INDEX TERMS: MeSH: HISTORY; CHIROPRACTIC, HISTORY; CHIROPRACTIC; AUSTRALIA.

Chiropractic J Aust 1995 Dec;25(4):129-33

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Prior Knowledge: A Consideration in Curriculum Development.

JENNIFER R. JAMISON.

Aim: Nutrition is an area in which community interest and information, or misinformation, abounds. Undergraduate students enter the formal component of their nutrition education with such prior exposure. This study aims to explore the nutritional beliefs of a group of young Australians in order that such prior knowledge can be taken into consideration when implementing their undergraduate teaching in this subject area.
Design: A survey of 96 second-year chiropractic and osteopathy students was undertaken prior to their commencing their formal course in nutrition. The beliefs of this convenience sample were assessed, using a closed-question questionnaire.
Results: By and large this student group demonstrated a factually correct appreciation of nutritional information. Little, if any, dogmatic adherence to nutritional myths was noted. A questioning attitude was detected.
Conclusions: It is suggested that a program emphasising critical appraisal of nutritional information will optimally serve the learning needs of this student group. In view of the nutritional beliefs of this group and the proposed approach to teaching this subject, it is suggested that health authorities need to have little concern that these future health professionals will contribute to the persistence of nutrition misinformation in the community.

INDEX TERMS: (MeSH): NUTRITION, MISINFORMATION; MYTH; CURRICULUM DESIGN.

Chiropractic J Aust 1995 Dec;25(4):134-9

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Chiropractic and Competition Law.

STANLEY P. BOLTON

The legislative period in Australian chiropractic history (1961-1985) saw the enactment of regulatory chiropractic legislation in all six Australian states, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. Ten years after completion of this Australia-wide process, attention now focuses on potential conflict between state regulation of the chiropractic profession and federal competition law.

INDEX TERMS: CHIROPRACTIC; COMPETITION LAW.

Chiropractic J Aust 1995 Dec;25(4):140-5

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The Role of the Peer Reviewed Literature As Appropriate Forum for Argument and Debate.

STEPHEN OSBORNE

The peer review process is readily accepted by academia as being essential to the progress of any discipline at all levels of research and discussion. This paper discusses the appropriateness of peer reviewed literature in the current literary climate, with particular consideration to the contribution it makes toward the acceptanceof a journal for indexing. Through acquisition of an indexed status, chiropractic journals can efficiently distribute new material to a very wide audience, and take advantage of an instrument by which the knowledge base of chiropractic can be cultivated and preserved into the next hundred years.

INDEX TERMS: MeSH: CHIROPRACTIC; INDEXING; PEER REVIEW

Chiropractic J Aust 1995 Dec;25(4):146-9

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