Overview
- Takes the reader on an encyclopaedic journey, illustrating the professionalization of pharmacy across the British Empire
- Examines how numerous territories adopted the British pharmaceutical model, presenting examples from around the world
- Explores the development of pharmacy within the contexts of the history of medicine and colonialism
Part of the book series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History (MBSMH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stuart Anderson is Professor Emeritus of the History of Pharmacy at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. He was previously Associate and later Acting Dean of Education at LSHTM until 2015. He has been researching and writing about the history of pharmacy for over 30 years. Stuart edited Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, published in 2005, and is now the editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Pharmaceutical Historian.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970
Authors: Stuart Anderson
Series Title: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78980-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78979-4Published: 23 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78982-4Published: 24 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78980-0Published: 22 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-9142
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9150
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 381
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, History of Medicine, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland, Pharmacy