A History of Western Pharmacy in China
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This book represents an important contribution to the field as it is the first to provide a detailed account of the interaction between Chinese and western medicine from a pharmacy perspective over a period of two millennia with an emphasis on the modern period from 1800-1949. None of the existing historiography on the relationship between TCM and western medicine has so far explored pharmaceutical aspects in detail. This book therefore fills an important gap in the literature and is likely to become a key resource for further study. It will be of interest to a wide audience, including pharmaceutical, imperial, and business historians, and should be essential reading for pharmacy students. But it will also be of interest to a general readership curious about the history of pharmacy in China and of western influences on Chinese medicine.
Stuart Anderson, BSc, MA, PhD, FRPharmS
Editor-in-Chef, Pharmaceutical Historian, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy History,
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Readers of this book, to Chiu’s credit, will be exposed to the nuanced cultural, medico-scientific, and business interactions that shaped Western pharmacy in China. Chiu puts a spotlight on the various materials, techniques, and processes of drug formulation and mass manufacture – and he rightly illustrates how pharmacy was substantiated as big business and mass manufacture. In analyses that incorporate materia medica and so-called dangerous drugs, such as opium, Chiu also articulates the complicated entangled histories of the movement, circulation, and translation of both pharmacy knowledge and goods. Yet, he appropriately acknowledges and evaluates non-Western epistemologies and practices that intermingled with Western ideas to create a novel type of pharmacy and pharmaceutical industry in China.
Lucas Richert, PhD
Professor & George Urdang Chair in Pharmacy History, UW-Madison
Executive Director, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
Patrick Chiu's book, A History of Western Pharmacy in China, effectively presents an unbiased perspective when discussing the contributions of expatriate pharmacy academics towards the development of China's pharmaceutical profession and themodern drug industry in the first half of the twentieth century. Chiu's impartial approach and well-researched content make it a recommended resource for understanding the historical development of pharmacy in China.
- Kazushige Morimoto Ph.D. D.Min, Education System - Qualified Pharmacist, President, The Japanese Society for the History of Pharmacy
This book covers the first century of China's opening-up to the outside world from 1840 and its opportunities and challenges in the adoption of science and technology, specifically focusing on modern advances in pharmacy and pharmaceutics. It demarcates the historical transformation of the traditional art of healing by replacing materia medica with that of chemical drugs, a process catalyzed by medial missionaries, ship surgeons, entrepreneurial western chemists and druggists, and, of equally importance, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pharmacy owners. The book surveys the impact of medical and pharmaceutical technologies in Europe and the North America, including quinine, opium substitutes, santonin, laughing gas, 606, insulin, penicillin, and so on, as they introduced by medical missionaries and enterprising drug merchants to the treaty ports and urban centers in China. As a trading hub and trans-shipment center in the late nineteenth century, import houses such as A.S. Watson, Koeffer Dispensary, and Jardine Matheson served as some of the early drivers in the rapid transmission of western medicines to the East. The book also addresses the motivational factors for enterprising TCM pharmacy owners to enter the western retail and wholesale drug market. It charts the introduction of best practice management in clinical pharmacy, zero tolerance in dispensing mistakes, publication of hospital formularies, control of poisons and dangerous drugs, and the other many measures implemented by colonial pharmacists. The book presents an otherwise underrepresented understanding of this complex period of the rise of western medicines in China. It is presented as an explorative narrative rather than an analytical history to effectively tell the story of western pharmacy in China. It is distinctly a pharmaceutical history, rather than a social or cultural history. It is of interest to scholars in the history of medicine, its East-West intersections, and in the history and evolution of contemporary pharmacy, in particular.
Demarcates the historical transformation of Traditional Chinese Medicine through the influence of western pharmacy Surveys impact of medical and pharmaceutical technologies in Europe and the North America and their arrival in the East Of interest to scholars in the history of medicine and its East-West intersections, and the evolution of contemporary pharmacy
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Patrick Chiu
Themen in »A History of Western Pharmacy in China«
Pharmacy in Hong Kong Western pharmacy education Traditional Chinese Medicine British Pharmacists Opium Wars The Peking Union Medical College Hospital, History of Medicine in China Science and Technology Advances in China Imperial and Colonial Influence from the West