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

Report of the 2018 AIHP Annual Business Meeting Webinar



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Upcoming events of interest to historians of pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, medicines, science, and related fields. (Event information current when posted. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, please double-check the status of all events):


May 9-12, 2024: Annual Meeting of the American Association of the History of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.
June 27-30, 2024: ADHS Biennial Conference, Buffalo, NY.
July 7-11, 2024: International Social Pharmacy Workshop, Banff, Canada.
September 4-7, 2024: 46th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy, Belgrade Serbia.
January 3-6, 2025: Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City, NY.


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