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Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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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.
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