Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the Pharmaceutical Society of...

pt. 1. Introduction and conclusion -- pt. 2. Science and precaution in regulatory decision-making -- pt. 3. Regulatory practice : pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology and climate change -- pt. 4. Role of courts -- pt. 5. Role of stakeholders.

Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture...