The History Of Pharmacy

Author : Bob Zebroski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317413332

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A Brief History of Pharmacy by Bob Zebroski Pdf

Pharmacy has become an integral part of our lives. Nearly half of all 300 million Americans take at least one prescription drug daily, accounting for $250 billion per year in sales in the US alone. And this number doesn't even include the over-the-counter medications or health aids that are taken. How did this practice become such an essential part of our lives and our health? A Brief History of Pharmacy: Humanity's Search for Wellness aims to answer that question. As this short overview of the practice shows, the search for well-being through the ingestion or application of natural products and artificially derived compounds is as old as humanity itself. From the Mesopotamians to the corner drug store, Bob Zebroski describes how treatments were sought, highlights some of the main victories of each time period, and shows how we came to be people who rely on drugs to feel better, to live longer, and look younger. This accessible survey of pharmaceutical history is essential reading for all students of pharmacy.

Author : Gregory Higby,Elaine C. Stroud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429664632

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The History of Pharmacy by Gregory Higby,Elaine C. Stroud Pdf

Originally published in 1995, The History of Pharmacy is a critical bibliography of selected information on the history of pharmacy. The book is designed to guide students and academics through the history of science and technology. Topics range from medicine, chemical technology and the economics and business of pharmacy to pharmacy’s influence in the arts. The bibliography includes an exhaustive selection of primary and secondary sources and is arranged chronologically. This book will be of interest to those researching in the area of the history of science and technology and will appeal to students and academic researchers alike.

Author : Stuart Anderson
Publisher : Pharmaceutical Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drugs
ISBN : 0853695970

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Making Medicines by Stuart Anderson Pdf

Making Medicines is a concise, chronological discussion of the history of therapeutics and pharmacy from the Egyptians through to the present day. It focuses on the discovery and uses of medicines to treat illness through the ages, and the evolving role of the pharmacist. Each chapter is contributed by an expert in the period or field, and illustrates how wider social, political and economic developments have influenced drug development and shaped pharmacy practice.The book has two colour-plate sections illustrating how pharmacy has developed over the centuries. Numerous photographs are also included in the text.Written by an expert in the field, this book will appeal to pharmacists and pharmacy students, as well as to other healthcare practitioners and medical historians.

Author : Edward Kremers,Glenn Sonnedecker,George Urdang
Publisher : Amer. Inst. History of Pharmacy
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Pharmacy
ISBN : 0931292174

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Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy by Edward Kremers,Glenn Sonnedecker,George Urdang Pdf

Author : Edward Kremers,George Urdang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Pharmacy
ISBN : UOM:39015020990308

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Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy by Edward Kremers,George Urdang Pdf

Author : Patrice Boussel,Henri Bonnemain,Frank James Bové
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Farmaci
ISBN : UOM:39015006002003

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History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Industry by Patrice Boussel,Henri Bonnemain,Frank James Bové Pdf

Author : Stuart Anderson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030789800

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Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970 by Stuart Anderson Pdf

Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded in 1841, its founders considered pharmacy to be a branch of medicine. However, the 1852 Pharmacy Act made the exclusion of pharmacists from the medical profession inevitable, and in 1864 the General Medical Council decided that pharmacy legislation was best left to pharmacists themselves. Yet across the Empire, pharmacy struggled to establish itself as an autonomous profession, with doctors in many colonies reluctant to surrender control over pharmacy. In this book the author traces the professionalization of pharmacy by exploring issues including collective action by pharmacists, the role of the state, the passage of legislation, the extension of education, and its separation from medicine. The author considers the extent to which the British model of pharmacy shaped pharmacy in the Empire, exploring the situation in the Divisions of Empire where the 1914 British Pharmacopoeia applied: Canada, the West Indies, the Mediterranean colonies, the colonies in West and South Africa, India and the Eastern colonies, Australia, New Zealand, and the Western Pacific Islands. This insightful and wide-ranging book offers a unique history of British pharmaceutical policy and practice within the colonial world, and provides a firm foundation for further studies in this under-researched aspect of the history of medicine.

Author : Ahmed Fathelrahman,Mohamed Ibrahim,Albert Wertheimer
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128017111

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Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries by Ahmed Fathelrahman,Mohamed Ibrahim,Albert Wertheimer Pdf

Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries: Achievements and Challenges offers a detailed review of the history and development of pharmacy practice in developing countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. Pharmacy practice varies substantially from country to country due to variations in needs and expectations, culture, challenges, policy, regulations, available resources, and other factors. This book focuses on each country’s strengths and achievements, as well as areas of weakness, barriers to improvement and challenges. It sets out to establish a baseline for best practices, taking all of these factors into account and offering solutions and opportunities for the future. This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, practicing pharmacists, policy makers, and students involved in pharmacy practice worldwide as it provides lessons learned on a global scale and seeks to advance the pharmacy profession. Uses the latest research and statistics to document the history and development of pharmacy practice in developing countries Describes current practice across various pharmacy sectors to supply a valuable comparative analysis across countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America Highlights areas of achievement, strengths, uniqueness, and future opportunities to provide a basis for learning and improvement Establishes a baseline for best practices and solutions

Author : Paula S. De Vos
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780822987949

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Compound Remedies by Paula S. De Vos Pdf

Winner, 2022 Edward Kremers Award Compound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Paula S. De Vos traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition from its foundations in ancient Greece to the physician-philosophers of medieval Islamic empires and the Latin West and eventually through the Spanish Empire to Mexico, offering a global history of the transmission of these materials, knowledges, and techniques. Her detailed inventory of the Herrera pharmacy reveals the many layers of this tradition and how it developed over centuries, providing new perspectives and insight into the development of Western science and medicine: its varied origins, its engagement with and inclusion of multiple knowledge traditions, the ways in which these traditions moved and circulated in relation to imperialism, and its long-term continuities and dramatic transformations. De Vos ultimately reveals the great significance of pharmacy, and of artisanal pursuits more generally, as a cornerstone of ancient, medieval, and early modern epistemologies and philosophies of nature.

Author : George A. Bender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258411857

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A History of Pharmacy in Pictures by George A. Bender Pdf

Author : Nigel Tallis,Kate Arnold-Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Pharmacists
ISBN : UOM:39015028411455

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Pharmacy History by Nigel Tallis,Kate Arnold-Forster Pdf

This collection of photographs records the history of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and marks the fact that the development of photography and pharmacy are closely linked. The pictures illustrate different periods of development in pharmacy and are grouped accordingly.

Author : He Bian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691200132

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Know Your Remedies by He Bian Pdf

"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"--

Author : Annesha W. Lovett
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Clinical pharmacology
ISBN : 9781449657291

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Introduction to the Pharmacy Profession by Annesha W. Lovett Pdf

This book offers a career assessment tool as well as helpful tips on resume preparation, interviewing techniques, and obtaining an internship. Readers gain a real-world perspective on pharmacy practice through interviews with over 35 pharmacists from areas such as academia, public health, and retail pharmacy. These insightful testimonials describe practical job responsibilities and offer guidance on finding the right career path."--

Author : Jonathan Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317168072

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Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809 by Jonathan Simon Pdf

This book explores the history of pharmacy in France and its relationship to the discipline of chemistry as it emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that an appreciation of the history of pharmacy is essential to a full understanding of the constitution of modern science, in particular the discipline of chemistry. As such, it provides a novel interpretation of the chemical revolution (c.1770-1789) that will, no doubt, generate much debate on the place of the chemical arts in this story, a question that has hitherto lacked sufficient scholarly reflection. Furthermore, the book situates this analysis within the broader context of the French Revolution, arguing that an intimate and direct link can be drawn between the political upheavals and our vision of the chemical revolution. The story of the chemical revolution has usually been told by focusing on the small group of French chemists who championed Lavoisier's oxygen theory, or else his opponents. Such a perspective emphasises competing theories and interpretations of critical experiments, but neglects the challenging issue of who could be understood as practising chemistry in the eighteenth century. In contrast, this study traces the tradition of pharmacy as a professional pursuit that relied on chemical techniques to prepare medicines, and shows how one of the central elements of the chemical revolution was the more or less conscious disassociation of the new chemistry from this ancient chemical art.

Author : Dennis B Worthen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0789016265

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Pharmacy in World War II by Dennis B Worthen Pdf

Get an inside look at the lives of military and civilian pharmacists during wartime! Pharmacy in World War II is a comprehensive history of American pharmacy, both in the military and on the home front, from 1941 to 1945. The book provides a unique insight into the profession, the practice, and its practitioners through the memories of those who served as pharmacist mates, corpsmen, or civilian pharmacists. Through accounts recorded in publications, stored in archives, or told first-hand, you’ll learn about the fight to establish an Army Pharmacy Corps, the work of the Selective Service committees to preserve an adequate pool of pharmacists for civilian practice, the bond drives that would buy hospital airplanes and trains, and a great deal more. Pharmacy in World War II also looks at the organizational, economic, educational, professional, and societal issues that molded pharmacy during a watershed in modern American history. Author Dennis B. Worthen, editor-in-chief of Haworth’s Pharmaceutical Heritage book series, compiled a database of more than 11,000 pharmacists, pharmacy students, and veterans in pharmacy school during wartime as part of the “Memories Project” that recalls the activities of the professional, trade, and educational institutions of pharmacy, their goals and development, and their interactions, agreements, and differences. The book examines the fight for an Army Pharmacy Corps, shortages and rationing on the home front, manpower shortages, the impact of the Selective Service, and the prevalent attitude in the military that pharmacy was a business, not a learned profession, and that pharmaceutical services could be learned with 90 days of training. Pharmacy in World War II includes memories of: pharmacy in the pre-World War II years pharmacy education the Selective Service the drugstore’s role in the war effort the Pharmacy Corps returning veterans The book also includes photographs and images as well as appendices listing colleges and schools of pharmacy, Selective Service pharmacy advisory committees, pharmacy organizations and leaders, extracts from Army medical departments supply catalogs, and pharmacists and pharmacy students who died in the war. Pharmacy in World War II is an invaluable document for pharmacy students, practitioners, and educators, and for students of American history.