Pharmacy History Working Group: JJ R. Strange, PhD Candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison – Crisis in the Garden: How War and Environmental Loss Transformed Chinese Pharmaceutical Research (1935-1955)
During the early and mid-twentieth century, global pharmaceutical research shifted away from botanical investigation to the synthetic creation of biochemical medicines. This presentation aims to reframe the shift in Chinese pharmaceutical research from botanicals to synthetic medicines as a product of changing landscapes within a research community, rather than a inevitable change in pharacueticals. In...
