Apostasy to orthodoxy

Debates before a Commission of Inquiry into chiropractic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2248552
AutoresKelsi Dew (0000-0003-3159-0413, University of Otago, autor de correspondencia), Kevin Dew
Año2000
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas310-330
Fecha de publicación2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.00206
OpenAlexW2017862566
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas6

This paper examines the arguments presented at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into chiropractic, which took place in New Zealand in 1978. Drawing on the work of Potter, it suggests that the protagonists in the debate, the medical profession and its allies on one side and the chiropractic profession on the other, developed rhetorical strategies to counter competing versions of the world. An unusual feature of this debate was that it took place before 'impartial' judges. The paper demonstrates the delicate process of negotiation performed by chiropractic groups when confronting medicine in an open forum. The paper concludes that in order to resolve the competing rhetorics, the Commissioners sought for a compromise, which at once embedded chiropractic within the public health service in New Zealand and 'de-radicalised' its claims

Alternative medicine · Chiropractic · Commission · Compromise · Negotiation · Orthodoxy · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Healthcare Quality and Management · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History of Medical Practice · Law · Medicine · Philosophy