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• Weiant, Clarence W.

For well over sixty years Clarence Woosley Weiant has been a presence in his first profession – and a name recognized in other disciplines of science and the arts.  He entered chiropractic at the apex of the “Golden Years” of the Palmer School, yet chose to pioneer the embryonic healing art in a new country, Mexico, and become a teacher as well as practitioner, Within ten years he would begin half a century as a regular contributor to its literature and become a lonely voice for academics in the proprietary school community.  He completed graduate work and achieved the first doctorate in a second profession –anthropology—and achieved recognition in that calling as well.  He became an opening to mainstream science during the difficult transition period of chiropractic, urging professionalization in education, basic research with accepted controls, contact with the profession abroad and unity in its organizational structure at home.  His articulation of the physiological and anatomical basis of the profession in books, journals, lectures and legislative testimony has ensured his place as one of chiropractic’s outstanding figures, has earned for him the 1984 Lee --Homewood Award and enters his name upon the rolls among “the best of the profession in its difficult years of survival and maturation.”

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