• Peters R

• Chance, Mary Ann, 1937-2008
• Chiropractic / history
• Chiropractic / history / Australia
• Chiropractors / Australia
• Chiropractors / history / Australia
• Open Access Document

Excerpt: There are reasons why our profession is what it is today, and behind every reason there is a story that needs to be told.    Chiropractic in Australia was mainly a rubble of divergent views for most of the 20th Century. Around the 1970s some shaped started to be given by legislation and education, driven by association. A signiAicant association was the Australian Chiropractors’ Association which initiated a newsletter which became a magazine which became a ‘journal of record’ of global signiAicance.   This Journal carries a paper that is classiAied as the Mary Ann Chance Memorial Paper. ‘Why?’ is a reasonable question. This paper by Rolf Peters goes some way to explaining why, by telling the story of Mary Ann Chance and why she became a driver within Australian chiropractic.  One of the joys of this Journal is that as Editor, I can tell a story, any story in fact, in the way I think best. Here we break with all conventions and tell the story of Mary Ann Chance through the eyes of the man who became her lover, husband, adoring fan, and life-long partner, even in her earthly death.  The Journal is not telling this story in this way for any reason other than to do so fulAils our mission to disrupt all the comfortable ideas about chiropractic publishing.    This story pushes the boundaries and it damned-well needs to, in the way Mary Ann pushed the boundaries about what consisted an Association journal. Her belief in the heart and soul of chiropractic, in the broadest yet most narrow sense, is s lesson to every reader today, especially the students of our profession. Why do we have passion? Why do we care? Why do we celebrate the power of women and the shape they bring our profession? I hope that what you now read goes a long way to answering these important questions.

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