Syllabus
Lectured topics:Pharmacy: purpose, functions, definitions.Pharmaceutical sciences. Pharmaceutical branches.
Organization of pharmacy.Medicine and pharmacy in Prehistory.Medicine and pharmacy in the Ancient timesPharmacy and medicine in Middle AgesPharmacy and medicine in Modern EraPharmacy and medicine in 19th centuryPharmacy and medicine in 20th century
Annotation
The first part of the subject introduces students to the current role and form of pharmacy: its position in the health system and its internal structure - pharmaceutical sciences and branches, their sub-functions and organizations. The second part introduces the historical development of the pharmacy in its entirety, with an emphasis on the roots of the current form of pharmaceutical practice. In the necessary extent, the history of pharmacy-related fields - medicine, natural sciences, and technology - are discussed, too.
Topics: Health care and pharmacy; Organization of pharmacy: pharmaceutical sciences and branches; Pharmacy as a part of medicine: Prehistory and Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt; Separation of pharmacy from medicine. Pharmacy and medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome; Pharmacy separated from medicine. The medieval European and Arab pharmacy and medicine; Pharmacy and medicine in the Renaissance I, II; Pharmacy and medicine in the Early Modern Period; Pharmacy and medicine in th 19th century I, II; Pharmacy and Medicine in the 20th century I, II, History of pharmacy in the Czech lands.