A Profession of One's Own: Organized Medicine's Opposition To Chiropractic [Hardcover]

Susan L. Smith-Cunnien (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0761809430 | ISBN-13: 978-0761809432 | Publication Date: December 11, 1997

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.

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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 Russel W. Chiropractic History )

A superb book, combining excellent empirical data with innovative theoretical conceptualization.>>>> (Walter I. Wardwell )

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 Russel W. Chiropractic History )

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (December 11, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761809430
• ISBN-13: 978-0761809432
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,621,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Susan captivates her reader, January 14, 2000

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This review is from: A Profession of One's Own: Organized Medicine's Opposition To Chiropractic (Hardcover)

Susan is a remarkable author. She knows what to say about her field and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. My hat off to her as she embarks on a touchy subject.