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Era of Naturopathic Medicine Renaissance
re-emerging profession: naturopathy to naturopathic medicine
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1974
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Founding of the Australian Council of Natural Therapeutics.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
The Australian Commonwealth Parliament forms Committee of Inquiry into Chiropractic, Osteopathy, Homeopathy, and Naturopathy. Committee recommends granting statutory registration for chiropractors and osteopaths but not for homeopaths and naturopaths, 1977.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
The Herb Book. John B. Lust, ND. /
1975
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
Founding of Australian Naturopathic Practitioners Association. Membership is naturopaths only, ANPA’s focus is profession’s governance, advancing naturopathic regulatory environment, continuing education, and standards for naturopathy as distinct profession.
Founding of South Pacific Council for Natural Therapies.
LICENSURE, EXAMINATIONS, REGULATORY, AND LICENSING BOARDS
Victorian Joint Select Committee on Osteopathy, Chiropractic, and Naturopathy recommends naturopathic practitioners be regulated by Department of Health; naturopathic training incorporated into university sector. These initiatives are put on hold as Commonwealth
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ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
NCNM clinic established for Kansas students at Postal Building in Portland, OR. Sole remaining naturopathic college clinic operating in North America.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Benoit Mandelbrot, PhD, introduces the term ‘fractal’ to describe observable patterns and structures, first published in translation as Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension (1977). After studying fractals called ‘Julia sets’ that were invariant under certain transformations of the complex plane, he built upon work by Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou, and, using a computer to plot images showing
the topology of the Julia sets, he introduced the Mandelbrot set in 1979. XX
Divided Legacy: Volumes I-IV: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought. Harris Coulter, PhD.
Three Generations of Healing Secrets. Ralph M. Failor, DC, ND.
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1976
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
John Bastyr, DC, ND, SP, becomes president of NCNM until 1979, serves college during first tendril of US profession renaissance, as new generation
of young students is drawn to naturopathic medicine. NCNM class of 1976, entered as 31
in 1972, is a significant indicator of the turning point. This gives hope to the small, dedicated
team of veteran naturopaths of this era, such as
Dr. Bastyr, who waited for the new generation. He and his contemporaries kept the profession’s few institutions and laws alive and carried the light
of naturopathic medicine’s teachings, practices,
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