Main description:

History is a valuable teacher. In this book most of the major issues of the profession of pharmacy, including association organisation and management, education, industry, governance and practice are addressed through an examination of the lives and careers of the pharmacy professionals who dealt with them. Leaders in the profession and those who aspire to be leaders will find the different approaches to problem solving of value. Knowledge of the history of pharmacy including major milestones and contributors in the evolution of the profession is considered essential for practitioner competency. Student pharmacists, faculty and residents will find this essential history in this text.

Contents:

An Introduction to the Heroes Overview of the Heroes Series Introduction Founders of the American Pharmaceutical Association George Francis Archambault: Pharmacy's Change Agent James Hartley Beal: Educator -- Statesman Donald Crum Brodie: Pharmacy Theoretician Chauncey I. Cooper: Champion of Minority Pharmacists Zada Mary Cooper: Advocate of Women in Pharmacy vAndrew Craigie: America's First Apothecary General C. Lewis Diehl: APhA's Reporter on the Progress of Pharmacyv H.A.B. Dunning: Pharmacy Philanthropist and Father of the APhA Foundation Carl T. Durham: Pharmacy's Representative Albert Ethelbert Ebert: Founder of American Pharmacy's Oldest Award Robert P. Fischelis: Pharmacy Activist Donald Eugene Francke: Reformer by Nature, Doer by Necessity Edward Kremers: Pharmaceutical Education Reformer J. Leon Lascoff: Champion of Professionalism Ernest Little: American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Champion Rufus Ashley Lyman: Towering Figure in the Field of Pharmaceutical Education John Michael Maisch: Father of Adequate Pharmaceutical Legislation Edward Parrish: Pioneer Ethicist Albert Prescott: Pharmacy Education's Revolutionary Spark William Procter, Jr.: Father of American Pharmacy Joseph Price Remington: Teacher of Teachers Charles Rice: Creator of the Modern Scientific Pharmacopoeia and the Father of the National Formulary Irving Rubin: Tireless Campaigner for Pharmacy Edward Spease: Father of Hospital Pharmacy Standards Edward R. Squibb: Advocate of Product Standards Linwood Franklin Tice: Champion of Students Henry M. Whelpley: Association Worker Harvey A.K. Whitney: Pioneer in Hospital Pharmacy