A History of western pharmacy in China /
Patrick Chiu
- Singapore : Springer, 2024
- 219 pages.
Includes index.
Acknowledgements -- Book Reviews -- Conventions -- Chronology of Key Events in China: 600 BCE to 1949 CE -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Beginnings of Western Influence on Chinese Medicine -- 2 Trade Wars and the Emergence of Western Pharmacy -- 3 Union Medical College and The “Cradle of Modern Medicine” -- 4 The Rise of Western Chemists -- 5 “Opium Cures”, Proprietary Medicines and Soda Water -- 6 Pharmaceutical Education and Manpower Development -- 7 Ethical Pharmaceuticals and Home-Grown Research and Development -- 8 Modernity, Pharmacy Law, and The Chinese Pharmacopoeia -- 9 Conclusion: Modern Pharmacy with Chinese Characteristics -- Author Index -- Index.
“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.