Apostasy to orthodoxy: Debates before a Commission of Inquiry into chiropractic

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 310-330

  Kevin, Dew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Chiropractic; Commission; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034178556     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00206     Document Type: Article

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