Clinical Pharmacy in the United States: Transformation of a Profession is a comprehensive account of the evolution of clinical pharmacy, beginning with an overview of the profession’s expansion and proceeding through decade-specific chapters. The book traces the clinical pharmacy movement from “The Roots of Clinical Pharmacy: 1910–1959” through the “Transformation of a Profession: An Overview of the Twentieth Century” and beyond to “Pharmacy’s Future: Transformation, Diffusion, and Imagination.”
Melded with the major clinical pharmacy–related events, the book portrays a running timeline that chronicles key cultural, political, economical, technological, health, and other major events. Also distributed throughout the book are reflective essays that provide on-the-ground perspectives of landmark developments including, but not limited to, the rise of clinical pharmacy, the path leading to specialization in pharmacy, the founding of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and the contribution of pharmaceutical care to clinical pharmacy.
Clinical Pharmacy in the United States was awarded a silver medal in the Association TRENDS’ 2009 All Media Contest, an award recognizing the most creative and effective communication vehicles developed in the association industry. The following are selected excerpts from various reviews of the book conducted by clinical pharmacy practitioners and educators:
“If this book is not incorporated—even mandated—into the formal pharmacy training of interns, students, residents, and the postgraduate education of practicing pharmacists, a great opportunity to transform the profession through the transformation of the individuals, will be missed.”
“For those of us who are practicing in the profession and for the next generation of pharmacists, this historical perspective inspires us to take the necessary steps and to engage in professional struggles to ensure that clinical pharmacy is practiced at the highest level in all settings and by all pharmacists.”
“[This is] a commendable book that deserves wide readership not only in the profession, but among the constituencies that interact with pharmacists.”
Additional information and excerpts about Clinical Pharmacy in the United States are available at www.accp.com/bookstore/product.aspx?pc=la_01cpus.