Pharmacy in History Vol. 60 (2018)

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Pharmacy in History vol. 60, no. 4 (2018)

Contents:

“Thanks for Reading: Editor’s Valedictory, by Gregory J. Higby

“(Not) A Bromide Story: Myth-Busting Bromide of Potassium to Create a Case Study of Change and Continuity in Nineteenth-Century Medicine, by Susan Lamb

“Love Him and Let Him Go”: The American Colonization Society’s James Brown—Pioneering African-American Apothecary in the United States and Liberia, 1802–1853, Part II—Liberia , by Gregory Bond

Research Notes & Departments:
By Name Only: A Note on Substandard Drugs in Early Arabic Pharmacy, by Oliver Kahl

A Short History of the Degree Programs at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, by Daniel J. Flanagan

William H. Helfand (1926-2018) [Obituary] , by John Parascandola

The Bookshelf, edited by Michael A. Flannery

Cinchona Bark & Imperial Spain
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800, by Matthews James Crawford, Review by Robert W. Wilcox
Drugs and War
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War, by Lukas Kamienski, Review by Dale C. Smith
Gender and Civil War Health
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War, Margaret Humphreys, Review by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Report of the 2018 AIHP Annual Business Meeting Webinar

Summary Minutes of the AIHP Annual Business Meeting
Report of the President by William A. Zellmer
Report of the Secretary by Robert A. Buerki
Report of the Treasurer by W. Clarke Ridgway
Report of the Executive Director by Gregory J. Higby

Pharmacy in History vol. 60, no. 3 (2018)

Contents:

“Outside the Pale” of Professionalism: The Pharmacists Union of Greater New York, 1932–1941, by Daniel J. Smith

“Love Him and Let Him Go”: The American Colonization Society’s James Brown—Pioneering African-American Apothecary in the United States and Liberia, 1802–1853, Part I—The United States , by Gregory Bond

Research Notes & Departments:
Rise and Fall of the Pain Killer, by James G. Gamble and Jamison G. Gamble

The Bookshelf, edited by Michael A. Flannery

Harry Anslinger & Drug Prohibition
Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs, by Alexandra Chasin,
Review by Lucas Richert
Drug Prohibition in Canada
When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws, by Dan Malleck,
Review by Shelley McKellar
Big Pharma & Generic Drugs
Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market, by Robin Feldman, Evan Frondorf,
Review by Scott H. Podolsky
History of Generic Drugs
Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, by Jeremy Greene,
Review by Duane Kirkingn

Dissertations in the History of Pharmacy, Selected and Abstracted by Jonathan Erlen

Have You Heard, edited by Gregory Bond

Pharmacy in History vol. 60, no. 1 & 2 (2018)

Contents:

Francis Peyre Porcher, M.D.: Botanist, Physician, Pharmacist, and Scientist, by Amy Gregg

“Good Enough for America”: Adulterated Drugs and the 1848 Drug Import Act, by Dennis Worthen

Research Notes & Departments:
Earliest Known Black Graduates of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, by Daniel J. Flanagan

High Potency Machines for Remedy Preparation in American Homeopathy, by Heike Gypser

William Brooke O’Shaughnessy (1809–1889) in India, by Harkishan Singh

2017 AIHP Certificate of Commendation Recipients, by Gregory Bond

The Bookshelf, edited by Michael A. Flannery

Drug Use in Nazi Germany
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich , by Norman Ohler,
Review by Dennis Worthen
Civil War Medical Cadets
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet, by Burt Green Wilder, Richard M. Reid,
Review by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Dissertations in the History of Pharmacy, Selected and Abstracted by Jonathan Erlen

Have You Heard, edited by Gregory Bond

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