Sara Ruppen: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2021

Name	Dr. Sara Ruppen
Address	Rathaus Apotheke AG Unterer Graben 35 8400 Winterthur SWITZERLAND
Telephone	0522691717
E-mail	sara.ruppen@pharma.ethz.ch
Department	Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Relationship	Lecturer

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
535-0015-00L	History of Pharmacy	1 credit	1V	S. Ruppen
Abstract	In the lecture, basic knowledge of the history of pharmacy is imparted, taking into account the various historical epochs.
Learning objective	After attending the lecture, the students are able to name significant events in the development of the pharmacy profession, pharmacy and medicines and to place them in a temporal context. They can list sources for working on questions from the history of pharmacy and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages. This enables them to confidently describe the importance of pharmacy as an independent, supporting pillar of the health system, the history of which has many interfaces with medicine, science, social and cultural history.
Content	The lecture conveys knowledge about the development of the pharmacist profession from ancient times to the present. Some pharmacists who made significant contributions to pharmacy are presented in more detail and their significance for today's pharmacy is discussed. The social position of pharmacists in society and the legal conditions in different epochs are also discussed. It explains what influence the pharmacists had on the development of the pharmaceuticals, but again the pharmaceuticals on the development of the pharmacists. For this purpose, it is shown how much the meaning, the nature, the type and the composition of pharmaceuticals and the knowledge about them changed over time.
Literature	Wird in der ersten Veranstaltung mitgeteilt.
Prerequisites / Notice	An interest in the history of pharmacy, the pharmacy profession, and medicines is an asset.