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1 comments about Rabid Dogs in the East: Behind the Patient's back.

1. Dr. Bruce Vaughan, former president of the World Federation
   of Chiropractic, has written a first-person account
   of chiropractors' struggle for survival, legitimacy and licensure
   in the former British Crown Colony of Hong
   Kong. A graduate of the Palmer College of Chiropractic
   in 1966, he has practiced in this capitalist outpost in China
   ever since. The founding president of the then threeman
   Hong Kong Chiropractic Association, his career has
   involved a continuing confrontation with an entrenched,
   multi-tentacled bureaucracy dominated by political medicine.
   For those who know about chiropractors' quest for
   licensure in the United States, the thrusts and parries will
   be all too familiar: disputes over title (should chiropractors
   be called "doctors"?), resistance to referral, the arrogance
   of medical gatekeepers, social ostracism and the
   insult of boldface lies, confrontation in person and in
   print, arrests on various dubious charges, and endless political
   lobbying for legal recognition.
   The opening chapter recounts the legislative session
   wherein the colony's chiropractors finally secured legal
   recognition, this after decades of opposition from an entrenched
   allopathic establishment. The account then
   backtracks to earlier times: Vaughan's youth (he's lived
   in England, South America and elsewhere), first encounter
   with chiropractic, his training at Davenport, Iowa, and
   his return to Hong Kong to establish his practice and the
   small, local professional society. Dr. Vaughan's practicebuilding
   coincided with his early political education.
   There were peaks and valleys, some the result of the colony's
   crises and tribulations and others the product of a
   medical domination of health care that in some respects
   more closely mimicked the American than the British experience.
   However, the flavor is ultimately unique, as is
   Hong Kong, and the young chiropractor's crusade embedded
   him in various elements of the culture: government
   and its bureaucracies, the media, local merchants
   and the courts. As has so often been the case in chirohistory,
   patience and perseverance would pay off, although
   this is not so clear to the swimmer struggling upstream.
   The influence of international organizations and events
   is related in sections dealing with the New Zealand Commission
   of Inquiry, the flicker of free speech in Peking's
   Tienanmen Square, the World Federation of Chiropractic's
   visit to Hong Kong, and the transfer of authority
   over the colony from Britain to China. Vaughan skillfully
   pulls this all together, and helps us to understand how the
   individual threads weave through the broader tapestry. As
   he suggests, the chiropractors' experience in Hong Kong
   offers an "accelerated version" of the profession's journey
   through the last century: a microcosm of the broader
   chiropractic yarn.
   What may come as a surprise to insular American DCs
   is that much of this saga unfolds after 1974, when Louisiana
   became the last state to authorize the practice of chiropractic.
   What makes this book special is Bruce
   Vaughan's skill as a raconteur. Written in a very readerfriendly
   style, Dr. Vaughan tells us enough about himself
   to make his professional crusade vivid and understandable.
   He spices the text with anecdotes and perspectives
   that carry the reader along willingly through drudgery
   and crisis. Vaughan balances the frustration inherent in
   this tale with a frequently dry and subtle humor that hints
   at his British roots.
   The book is interesting also for the glimpses it offers
   of Hong Kong and its evolution during the past 35 years.
   Chiropractors and historians will value this work for its
   detail and documentation of the quest for legitimacy in
   this little bit of England in Asia. Offered in paperback at
   very modest price, one can't go wrong: a good read.
   Joseph C. Keating, Jr., PhD
   Phoenix, Arizona Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association.

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