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The Academy also has a strict quota system per country. The Academy’s founding fathers wished it to have a broad membership and to avoid a small number of countries very active in the history of pharmacy from becoming too dominant. The announcement about the foundation of the Academy that appeared in the Journal of the History of Medicine emphasised that its main purpose was to stimulate international cooperation in the history of pharmacy. A country of up to 30 million population can nominate up to six members, and larger countries can nominate additional members at the rate of one member for every additional 50 million population. This means that a country with a population of less than 30 million can have 6 members, but so too can a country with between 30 and 79 million inhabitants. A country with a population between 80 and 129 million can have 7 members, one with between 130 and 179 million can have 8 members, and so on. To have 10 members of the Academy a country would need to have a population of between 230 and 279 million, and a country with population of just over 1,000 million could have 26 members |
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The process of a person becoming accepted as a member of the Academy begins with one of the nominators submitting the candidate’s details, including his or her CV, their list of publications and other activities in the history of pharmacy to the Secretary, who checks that the details are in order; that the nominators are members of the Academy and that, if accepted, the member would be within the country’s quota. If they are in order, the details are published in the Academy’s publication, Communications, and circulated to all members. The members then have 3 months to raise objections or queries. If none are raised the candidate is accepted as a member of the Academy. Once members reach their 70th birthday they become emeritus, and cease to count towards the quota. |
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