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Publication celebrates decade as a Section
THE American novelist and humanitarian Pearl S. Buck once said that "if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." Those words hit home this year when the Chiropractic Health Care Section commemorated 10 years of section status by chronicling and publishing its own history in a paper, "Chiropractic and the American Public Health Association, 1984-2005: Pariah, to Participant, to Parity."
The paper traces the history of chiropractic within APHA from 1984, when chiropractors were first formed into a Special Primary Interest Group, to the achievement of full APHA Section status in 1995 and the celebration of the first 10 years as a Section in 2005.
APHA member Jonathon Todd Egan, DC, MPH, principle author of the paper, presented portions of the more than 70-page history at the Association for Chiropractic History conference June 24 in Chicago. The paper also will be published in the organization's peer-reviewed journal, Chiropractic History, the same journal that in 1987 published the account of chiropractic's earliest years in...