Chiropractors and vaccination: A historical perspective

被引:29
作者
Campbell, JB
Busse, TW
Injeyan, HS
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Fac Med, Dept Med Genet & Microbiol, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
[2] Canadian Mem Chiropract Coll, Div Biol Sci, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] Canadian Mem Chiropract Coll, Div Postgrad Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada
关键词
chiropractic; chiropractors; history of chiropractic; spinal manipulation; vaccination;
D O I
10.1542/peds.105.4.e43
中图分类号
R72 [儿科学];
学科分类号
100202 ;
摘要
Although there is overwhelming evidence to show that vaccination is a highly effective method of controlling infectious diseases, a vocal element of the chiropractic profession maintains a strongly antivaccination bias. Reasons for this are examined. The basis seems to lie in early chiropractic philosophy, which, eschewing both the germ theory of infectious disease and vaccination, considered disease the result of spinal nerve dysfunction caused by misplaced (subluxated) vertebrae. Although rejected by medical science, this concept is still accepted by a minority of chiropractors. Although more progressive, evidence-based chiropractors have embraced the concept of vaccination, the rejection of it by conservative chiropractors continues to have a negative influence on both public acceptance of vaccination and acceptance of the chiropractic profession by orthodox medicine.
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