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Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970

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Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

Medical ReferenceSports GeneralBritish History

ISBN10: 3030789829
ISBN13: 9783030789824
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 24 2022
Pages: 381
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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