Heroes of Pharmacy: Professional Leadership in Times of Change

Author: Dennis B. Worthen, PhD, Lloyd Scholar, Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, OH

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ISBN: 978-1-58212-111-6; October 2007; 175 pages, 6”x 9”, hardbound

History is a valuable teacher. In this book most of the major issues of the profession of pharmacy, including association organization and management, education, industry, governance, and practice are addressed through an examination of the lives and careers of the pharmacy professionals who dealt with them. Leaders in the profession and those who aspire to be leaders will find the different approaches to problem solving of value. Knowledge of the history of pharmacy including major milestones and contributors in the evolution of the profession is considered essential for practitioner competency. Student pharmacists, faculty, and residents will find this essential history in this text.

Key Features

• Essays on the professional lives of 28 pharmacy statesmen, reformers, activists, educators, ethicists, editors, and pioneers - plus the 20 founders of the American Pharmaceutical Association
• Photographs of pharmacy leaders and milestones in the history of pharmacy from the American Pharmacists Association Foundation archives
• Insights into two centuries of professional progress in education, community and institutional practice, manufacturing, government, publishing, association leadership, and military service

Table of Contents

An Introduction to the Heroes
Overview of the Heroes
Series Introduction
Founders of the American Pharmaceutical Association
George Francis Archambault: Pharmacy’s Change Agent
James Hartley Beal: Educator – Statesman
Donald Crum Brodie: Pharmacy Theoretician
Chauncey I. Cooper: Champion of Minority Pharmacists
Zada Mary Cooper: Advocate of Women in Pharmacy
Andrew Craigie: America’s First Apothecary General
C. Lewis Diehl: APhA’s Reporter on the Progress of Pharmacy
H.A.B. Dunning: Pharmacy Philanthropist and Father of the APhA Foundation
Carl T. Durham: Pharmacy’s Representative
Albert Ethelbert Ebert: Founder of American Pharmacy’s Oldest Award
Robert P. Fischelis: Pharmacy Activist
Donald Eugene Francke: Reformer by Nature, Doer by Necessity
Edward Kremers: Pharmaceutical Education Reformer
J. Leon Lascoff: Champion of Professionalism
Ernest Little: American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Champion
Rufus Ashley Lyman: Towering Figure in the Field of Pharmaceutical Education
John Michael Maisch: Father of Adequate Pharmaceutical Legislation
Edward Parrish: Pioneer Ethicist
Albert Prescott: Pharmacy Education’s Revolutionary Spark
William Procter, Jr.: Father of American Pharmacy
Joseph Price Remington: Teacher of Teachers
Charles Rice: Creator of the Modern Scientific Pharmacopoeia and the Father of the National Formulary
Irving Rubin: Tireless Campaigner for Pharmacy
Edward Spease: Father of Hospital Pharmacy Standards
Edward R. Squibb: Advocate of Product Standards
Linwood Franklin Tice: Champion of Students
Henry M. Whelpley: Association Worker
Harvey A.K. Whitney: Pioneer in Hospital Pharmacy

About the Author

Dennis B. Worthen, PhD, is the Lloyd Scholar at the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. An adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, he teaches the history of pharmacy course. Worthen retired in 1999 from Procter & Gamble Health Care, where he was the director of pharmacy affairs. He has authored and edited a number of books on the history of pharmacy including Pharmacy in World War II and The Millis Study Commission on Pharmacy: A Road Map to a Profession's Future. Worthen is also editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Pharmacy.

Heroes of Pharmacy: Professional Leadership in Times of Change is recommended for pharmacy leaders at local, state, and national level, pharmacy faculty, students, and residents and historians.