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In Health and In Sickness: Pharmacy, Pharmacists, and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Late Imperial, Early Soviet Russia - Mary Scaeffer Conroy - $15.00
In Health and In Sickness: Pharmacy, Pharmacists, and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Late Imperial, Early Soviet Russia mirrors society, the economy, government, and revolutionary movements in the Russian Empire from the 19th century through the first two decades of the 20th century. Based on archival materials and published sources, this book not only addresses health care but adds chiaroscuro to a complex and crucial era. The book provides a case study of the results of excessive government interference in the economy but also the dynamism of pharmacist entrepreneurs. The fate of pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry after 1917 begins to answer the question of how the Soviet pharmaceutical industry lost world-competitive status.
This panoramic volume of 703 pages, including notes, bibliograph, index, and photos, address the following topics: government regulations for establishing and operating pharmacies in Imperial Russia; competition to privately owned pharmacies from socialized city and zemstvo pharmacies and drug stores; the training and education of pharmacists; Polish and Jewish pharmacists who comprised approximately two-thirds of the profession; the education and achievements of women pharmacists who entered the profession in 1888; pharmacists’ pharmacognosy and pharmacological research; the achievements and the problems of the pharmaceutical industry in Imperial Russia; famous pharmacists like V.K. Ferrein, R. Keler, and Antonina Lesnevskaia; phytotherapy; pharmacists’ contributions to public health; drug use and abuse in Tsarist Russia; pharmacy journals and societies; the pharmacists’ pension fund, radical (Marxist) pharmacists’ proposals to eliminate private pharmacies; The Russian Pharmaceutical industry during World War I; Marxist organizations and the activities of Marxist pharmacists in the upheavals of 1905 and the revolutions of 1917; government (particularly P. A. Stolypin’s) policies for the advancement of the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical education, and the ending of privately-owned pharmacies; nationalization of pharmacies after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
