Book ID: CBB300441532

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970 (2021)

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Offering a comprehensive reference for medical historians, this book presents the different ways that pharmacy was regulated, practiced and taught within Britain and its colonies throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring how pharmacy became an independent and autonomous profession, the author sheds light on developments that led up to the Poisons and Pharmacy Act of 1908, which marked the official separation of pharmacy from medicine. This ‘professionalization’ of pharmacy, which was emulated by pharmacists throughout the British Empire, involved the standardisation and imperialization of the list of medicines to be used, and the unification of a single British Pharmacopoeia, which replaced the former separate London, Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. With many colonies adopting the British model of pharmacy, these standards were spread from the metropole to the periphery – to places such as Canada, the West Indies, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands. Split into the regional divisions as presented in the British Pharmacopoeia, this book provides an encyclopaedic analysis of the evolution of western pharmaceutical regulation in a number of disparate territories. An insightful and wide-ranging book, Professionalizing Pharmacy in the British Empire, 1800-1980, offers a unique history of British policy and pharmaceutical standards within the colonial world.

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Authors & Contributors
Mr Anthony C. Cartwright
Mackintosh, Alan
Dorner, Zachary
Worthen, Dennis B.
Sivasundaram, Sujit
Seth, Suman
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Medicine
Imperialism
Pharmacy
Professions and professionalization
Globalization; internationalization
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
India
England
Indian Ocean
Rhodesia
Cuba
Institutions
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
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