First Chiropractic Publication Indexed in Allied Health Literature

By Editorial Staff

The Journal of Chiropractic Humanities (JCH), owned and published by the National College of Chiropractic (NCC), is now indexed internationally by the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). NCC also publishes the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), a respected scientific journal already listed in numerous international indexes.

The CINAHL was established in 1956, and its first volume indexed articles from 12 nursing journals. Today the CINAHL, published 10 times a year, indexes some 300 English language journals, and scans the 2,600 biomedical journals from Index Medicus. Primarily literature from nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation, respiratory therapy, radiotherapy and cardiopulmonary technology, emergency services, health education, surgical technology, medical and physician's assistants are the disciplines covered.

"I am delighted to know that CINAHL has found the information that is published in the pages of the Journal of Chiropractic Humanities worthy of note for the users of their database," said Dr. Dana Lawrence, editor of the JCH. Dr. Lawrence said this recognition was proof that the JCH has met its goal of "fostering scholarly debate on matters relating to philosophical, historical and sociological discourse as these disciplines pertain to the chiropractic profession."

Philosophy has always played an important role in the chiropractic profession, but there have been few public vehicles for continual dissemination of material pertaining to scholarly philosophical debate. The Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, an annual publication in its fifth year of press, fills that niche.

"This journal, which began as Philosophical Constructs for the Chiropractic Profession, is especially close to my heart since it was my brainchild," noted James Winterstein, DC, NCC president. Dr.

Winterstein expressed his gratitude to Dr. Lawrence for taking the idea and turning it into a reality, and bringing the publication this well-deserved recognition.

In the interest of service to the profession, NCC provides the Journal of Chiropractic Humanities free of charge to all chiropractors in the United States.