CJA Vol.31 Issue 4Editorial: A Subluxation Is a Subluxation Is a Subluxation? Expectations: A Case Study Describing the Outcome
Expectations of Chiropractors and their Patients Controlling Registered Practitioners: Chiropractic and Osteopathy Unzipped STANLEY P. BOLTON State regulatory registration controlling registered health practitioners has developed and is refined over time. Illustrating this process as it relates to one such discipline, this paper summarises the history and refinement of chiropractic legislation in New South Wales. It identifies a fundamental flaw in the state’s first Chiropractic Act (1978) and its correction in the Chiropractors Act (2001), and compares and contrasts significant elements of the three acts of Parliament controlling and regulating chiropractors in New South Wales over 23 years. It concludes that legislative separation of chiropractic from osteopathy has established a new legal environment in which the independent advancement of the chiropractic profession can develop in New South Wales neither shacked by medical dominance nor manipulated by sectional interests in chiropractic INDEX TERMS: MeSH: CHIROPRACTIC; LEGISLATION; LICENSURE; AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES. Other: CHIROPRACTIC ACTS; LEGAL CONTROL MECHANISMS.. Chiropr J Aust 2001;31 Expectations: A Case Study Describeing the Outcome Expectations of Chiropractors and Their Patients JENNIFER R. JAMISON State regulatory registration controlling registered health practitioners has developed and is refined over time. Illustrating this process as it relates to one such discipline, this paper summarises the history and refinement of chiropractic legislation in New South Wales. It identifies a fundamental flaw in the state’s first Chiropractic Act (1978) and its correction in the Chiropractors Act (2001), and compares and contrasts significant elements of the three acts of Parliament controlling and regulating chiropractors in New South Wales over 23 years. It concludes that legislative separation of chiropractic from osteopathy has established a new legal environment in which the independent advancement of the chiropractic profession can develop in New South Wales neither shacked by medical dominance nor manipulated by sectional interests in chiropractic INDEX TERMS: MeSH: CHIROPRACTIC; LEGISLATION; LICENSURE; AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES. Other: CHIROPRACTIC ACTS; LEGAL CONTROL MECHANISMS. Chiropr J Aust 2001;31. The Best of Books for 2001: An Enthusiasm for Innate PHILLIP S. EBRALL Reviews are presented of a number of books published during 2001. A variety of publications for the year were selectively sampled by the author as to whether or not they held relevance to the clinical practice of chiropractic and its contemporary understanding. Thirty titles were chosen for inclusion in this review. They address both clinical and professional issues. The review comments are contextualised by commentary on a prevailing theme among the works that underscores the traditional chiropractic concept of innate intelligence. Some authors explore the value of the so-called placebo effect, while others provide suggestions as to the mechanisms by which complementary and alternative medicine, including chiropractic, achieve their therapeutic outcomes. Still others provide a context to assist the reader incorporate this new knowledge. The conclusion is reached that the evidence for the chiropractic paradigm has taken a dramatic step forward, however concern is expressed that fewer chiropractors are now writing less and, as a result, the profession may either fail to capitalise on these advances, or worse, lose ownership of the unique philosophical understanding of health and disease which both sets it apart from other disciplines and raises it beyond mere therapy. INDEX TERMS: MeSH: CHIROPRACTIC AUSTRALIA; PHILOSOPHY. Chiropr J Aust 2001;31. |
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