A hundred years of research in history of pharmacy in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic could be divided into three distinctive periods. Between 1918 and 1948, researchers were mostly independent authors publishing in professional journals. Emil Šedivý, Josef Svetozár Novák and Jaroslav Hladík stand out among them. In the period 1948–1989, research was institutionalized. Researchers were active within various institutions and organisations. University research reached the highest level in quality. Separate institutes for history of pharmacy were established in universities′ departments of pharmacy in Brno, Bratislava and Hradec Králové. The most significant person of this era was Václav Rusek. Non-professional research took place within the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in the Czechoslovak Society for the History of Sciences and Technology, where the Section for History of Pharmacy operated. Another centre was the Section of History of Pharmacy of the Czech Pharmaceutical Society. The most specific platform for basic research was movement of pharmacists-historians, which was established in five regions of Czechoslovakia on the basis of Regional Institutes for the National Healthcare. The period since 1990 was initially characterised by transformation. Many of the mentioned institutions ceased to exist, while others like the Czech Pharmaceutical Museum and the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno newly came to existence as research centres in the field of the history of pharmacy.

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A century in the independent Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic 1918-2018

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