Because they have yet to pass national legislation protecting the chiropractic profession, Japanese DCs are in a similar situation that U.S. DCs faced. We were fortunate enough to be able to pass chiropractic licensure state by state. The DCs in Japan must accomplish this nationally, which has proved to be an extremely difficult task. And in spite of their efforts, Japanese DCs are currently faced with two chiropractic professions.
PubMed Indexes Journal of Chiropractic Humanities
National University of Health Sciences (NUHS) has announced that PubMed, the prestigious search engine of the National Library of Medicine, now includes the Journal of Chiropractic Humanities among its indexed publications.
JCH began in 1991 as Philosophical Constructs for the Chiropractic Profession. In 1993, the journal changed its name and broadened its purpose, becoming the Journal of Chiropractic Humanities. Today, the mission of the JCH is: "to foster scholarly debate and interaction within the chiropractic profession regarding the humanities, which includes history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, jurisprudence, ethics, theory, sociology, comparative religions, and aspects of social sciences that address historical or philosophical approaches."
"Although JCH is currently indexed in several other indexing systems," said JCH Editor Claire Johnson, DC, "PubMed is where health care providers and decision-makers look when searching for trustworthy and high quality literature."
"With the addition of JCH, all three of our journals are now indexed in PubMed," said James Winterstein, DC, president of NUHS, which publishes the journal. (NUHS' other two journals are the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine.) "My personal thanks and appreciation goes to editor-in-chief of the journal, Dr. Claire Johnson, and Associate Editor Bart Green, DC, for their dedication and commitment to the quality and content of the JCH. That quality has made this indexing possible."
The journal can be accessed at www.journalchirohumanities.com or www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov.
Source: National University of Health Sciences