Giles LG Funding for laboratory staff salaries at the Spinal Research Laboratory at Griffith University ceased on 5 February 1992. Burnum B Concepts of health and disease vary widely among cultures and eras, yet there are common themes. This paper outlines the basis for some of the beliefs and practices associated with spiritual aspects of healing traditions of the Aboriginal people of Australia, and includes descriptions of typical incidents by way of illustration. Differences between Aboriginal and Western notions of disease causation and the meaning of illness are discussed. Selection, training, role and powers of traditional healers, and division of responsibility by gender, are briefly described.
Chiropractic philosophy has no future.
The following paper argues that chiropractic philosophy is a misnomer and that what chiropractors have described as chiropractic philosophy is neither unique to chiropractic, nor, for the most part, is it philosophy. However, it suggests that a viable philosophy of chiropractic is not only possible, but desirable. It would help chiropractors to resolve many of the present philosophical differences so that at least their disagreements would be over something real to disagree about and not simply political and rhetoric differences. A philosophy of chiropractic would involve applying the fields and insights of general philosophy to chiropractic issues. It would require that chiropractors become more sophisticated about philosophy to chiropractic issues.