Secondary Legitimacy: A Key Mainstream Health Care Inclusion Strategy for the Danish Chiropractic Profession?

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 392-395

  Myburgh, Corrie ^a,b   Hartvigsen, Jan ^a   Grunnet Nilsson, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Delivery of Health Care; Sociology of Medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT;

EID: 44949158914     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2008.04.003     Document Type: Note

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