Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970

by Stuart Anderson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030789829
• ISBN13: 9783030789824
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"