A Profession of One's Own: Organized Medicine's Opposition to Chiropractic

by Susan L. Smith-Cunnien

Overview

This book documents organized medicine's communications to its members about chiropractic, demonstrating how by fighting chiropractic, organized medicine was serving itself and the profession: focusing on unity in the face of factionalism, demonstrating its superiority in the face of a doubting public, and developing and maintaining its dominance in the face of bureaucratic and legislative challenges to that dominance. Much has been written about how medicine's opposition to chiropractic spurred that profession to fight for its survival. This book shows how medicine's opposition to chiropractic was just as important for the development of medicine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761809432
Publisher:	UPA
Publication date:	12/11/1997
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.68(w) x 8.76(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Susan L. Smith-Cunnien is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

A superb book, combining excellent empirical data with innovative theoretical conceptualization.

Walter I Wardwell

Professor Susan L. Smith-Cunnien has done an admirable work in presenting the sustaining data to make this case from a dispassionate sociologist's evaluation.

Walter I. Wardwell

Professor Susan L. Smith-Cunnien has done an admirable work in presenting the sustaining data to make this case from a dispassionate sociologist's evaluation.
— Walter I. Wardwell, University of Connecticut

Russel W. Chiropractic History