The philosophical conflict between medicine and chiropractic can be summed up simply:
Medicine believes that disease causes a lack of health.
Chiropractic believes that a lack of health causes disease.
Consequently, medicine treats disease while chiropractic addresses one of the causes for a lack of health.
Medicine and chiropractic are going in opposite directions.
An alternative is a different way of achieving the same objective or going the same direction. Hence, chiropractic cannot be an alternative to medicine. v15n2