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Examines a fundamental dilemma in the chiropractic profession--that it exists as a holistic approach to health care in a mechanistic, reductionist culture. The resolution of this dilemma lies not in the outright rejection of the reductionist model, but in the development of a science of health that accounts for the diversities of the physical and other natural sciences, and achieves a reasonable balance between scientific objectivity and human experience. The authors develop a chiropractic model of health care that draws upon four major models (including the biomedical model, the model of experimental/anthropological systems, and culturological models of health care). They describe each of these models and how its own unique contribution applies to the essential features of what can best be described as a person-centered, health-oriented, and evidence-based paradigm of health care. The article then discusses how these models and concerns can be used to aid the chiropractic profession.
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