Pharmacopoeias, drug regulation, and empires : making medicines official in Britain's imperial world, 1618-1968 / Stuart Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Stuart, 1946- author.

Series:

Intoxicating Histories Series

Intoxicating Histories Series ; v.10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmacopoeias--Great Britain--History.

Pharmacopoeias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of "official" pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and later to a single pharmacopoeia across imperial Britain.

Contents:

Cover

PHARMACOPOEIAS, DRUG REGULATION, AND EMPIRES

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Medicines, Trade, and Pharmacopoieas

1 The Many Meanings of 'Pharmacopoiea'

2 Pharmacopoeias and Drug Regulation

3 Pharmacopoeias in European Colonial Empires

4 Pharmacopoeias for England, Scotland, and Ireland

5 The Emergence of Colonial Pharmacopoeias

6 One Empire, One Pharmacopoeia

7 Towards an Imperial Pharmacopoeia

8 From Colonial Addendum to Imperial Pharmacopoeia

9 A Committee of Inquiry

10 Decolonizing the Pharmacopoeia

Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-2280-2159-6

0-2280-2158-8

OCLC:

1433207402