The Pursuit of Legitimacy and Professionalism: The evolution of pharmacy in Ontario Jennifer D. Beales and Zubin Austin Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Canada This paper explores the development of pharmacy practice in Ontario, Canada and outlines its initial professionalisation and the landscape in which the profession has evolved: reshaping and redefining itself against...

Great Moments in Medicine and Pharmacy: a History of Medicine and Pharmacy in Pictures, by G. A. BENDER and R. A. THOM, Detroit, Northwood Institute Press, for Parke, Davis & Co., 1966, 2 vols., pp. 421, 238, $12.00, $10.00. An astonishing amount of work has been put into these two colourful books by an author-artist team employed by Parke, Davis & Co. Using reproductions of oil paintings (by R...

Human resources development in society or organization is a necessity to secure progress. Without such development societies or organizations fail to achieve their objectives. Human resources development is a three-stage measure to meet the requirements of each society or organization. These three stages are: a) planning and programming: at this stage qualitative and quantitative needs are dete...

Rene Marie and fIuchard's lengthy review were regarded as no more than contributions to this seemingly endless dispute. Physicians at this period were preoccupied with physical diagnosis by means of percussion and auscultation in which respect coronary disease was a sterile field. Herrick's paper of 1918 at last supplied the missing link, namely a physical sign in the form of an abnormal electr...

The 1933 Pharmacy and Poisons Act gave the Society increased control over a wider membership; and established control by the Home Secretary of the scheduling of poisons. Holloway's coverage of the post-war period is less detailed, but, none the less, includes significant recent developments such as the Society's establishment of the College of Pharmacy Practice in 1981 and its continuing commit...

The book " Studii de istoria farmaciei " (" Studies of the history of pharmacy ") is a selection of the main studies of the history of pharmacy written by the author over the past 20 years. A pharmacist by profession, with a PhD in pharmacy, Dr. Tuka László has performed researches in various fields of pharmaceutical sciences, but the history of pharmacy has been the author's constant passion. ...

The Faculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London held its seventh annual general meeting in Apothecaries' Hall on 30 April 1966. After formally presenting the annual report to members, the Chairman, Dr. W. S. C. Copeman, conferred the Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty on Professor Adalberto Pazzini (Director of the Institute of the History...

ill health. After completing the second edition of his book in 1826, he left Paris for the last time and died a few months later at his beloved Kerlouarnec. If you leave this quiet spot and go back towards the town, you come to the church at Ploar6, where Laennec used to worship. It is famous for its gargoyles, and when I visited it, someone was practising a Handel organ concerto. I was disappo...

pharmacy, being a profession which its activities are directly related to the health and wellbeing of the people and soci­ety has been described an ethical profession from earliest time. in the recent decades there has been a shift in the phar­macist role from dispensing to relationship with patients and health care providers and interfere the therapeutic process. other branches of pharmacy suc...