{"id":20,"date":"2017-06-28T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:52:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"About AIHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The documentation and preservation of pharmacy\u2019s heritage is the primary aim of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.\u00a0 We do this by making available a wide variety of materials related to scholarly, professional, and popular history of pharmacy.\u00a0 We provide financial support for research designed to illuminate the history of the profession, the history of drug research and manufacturing, and the history of the uses of medicines in society.<\/em><\/p>\n

WHAT WE DO? <\/strong><\/p>\n

AIHP serves as a resource and consultant to professional associations, teachers, libraries, museums, pharmacy schools, communications media, and scholars in the field. The Institute has cooperated with the agencies and associations of American pharmacy to promote professional development by providing historical research, information, and insight on the issues affecting pharmacy both past and present. The Institute sponsors symposia and workshops, often collaborating with groups like the American Pharmaceutical Association and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, to foster research and publishing on ethics, technology, and other issues of importance to the field.<\/p>\n

The Institute is committed to fostering the teaching of the history of pharmacy in schools and colleges of pharmacy in the United States. We provide grants to help schools purchase needed resource and reference materials. Several Institute publications have become staples in history of pharmacy courses.<\/p>\n

AIHP supports both public and private collections of manuscript material and artifacts related to the profession. We collect and preserve the published and unpublished records of American pharmacy, and we serve as a clearinghouse for accurate information about pharmacy\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

FOUNDERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy was founded in Madison, Wisconsin on January 22, 1941 at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. The six founders of AIHP were:<\/p>\n