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By J. Stuart Moore. 228 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. $34.95. ISBN 0-8018-4539-4.

J. Stuart Moore's history of chiropractic in the United States seeks to explain why chiropractic has survived whereas other fringe medical movements have disappeared. The author's first conclusion appears on the initial page of his preface: the vast market and imperfect methods for the alleviation of back pain have permitted more than one style of practice. Moore also argues that the very persecution by which standard medicine hoped to suppress chiropractic led to a sense of martyrdom that enabled chiropractic to persist through missionary zeal. Finally, Moore claims that chiropractic flourished because of its effectiveness, a fact supported by his . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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