Ethnopharmacologist
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- I have updated the language, could you please proofread the new article below?
- Peter AGM De Smet (born in 1952) is a retired drug information pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist, emeritus professor of pharmaceutical patient care, and lyricist.
- He is still active as an ethnopharmacological and ethnomedical researcher.
- Drug therapy and pharmaceutical care (1979-present)
- In the 1980s, De Smet was the chief designer of the Dutch drug database which is still essential in Dutch healthcare. His professional publications have primarily focused on medication safety, medication incidents, drug adherence, pharmaceutical care, and drug substitution.
- Phytotherapy, ethnopharmacology and ethnomedicine (1980 - present)
- In 1985, De Smet published an ethnopharmacological PhD thesis on intoxicating enemas and snuffs in the Americas. He published the chapter on intoxicating enemas among the pre-Columbian Maya together with Nicholas Hellmuth as a separate article in 1986.
- His phytotherapeutic publications have focused on the clinical pharmacology and safety of herbal medicines and plant-derived drugs. He has also published articles on the legislation of herbal medicines, herbal pharmacokinetics,
- herbal pharmacoepidemiology, and herbal pharmacoeconomics.
- De Smet served three times as guest curator in an ethnological museum and each time wrote the catalogue for the exhibition.He is currently working on a major 4P-Project (Patients, Practitioners, Practices, Plants) that will provide global coverage of the material cultures of ethnomedicine and ethnopharmacology.
- He located archaeological material of the peyote cactus in the Witte Museum in San Antonio, USA. Radiocarbon dating showed that the material was 5700 years old and chemical analysis demonstrated that the hallucinogenic alkaloid mescaline was still present.
- De Smet co-founded the International Society for Ethnopharmacology in 1990 and
- participated in the Project Group for International Classification of Traditional Medicine (ICTM) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The latter project resulted in a special chapter on traditional medicine (TM) in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11).
- Honors & awards
- Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion (2019)
- Honorary Medal Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Association (2018)
- Ig Nobel prize for art history (2022) for the 1986 article on intoxicating Maya enemas
- Winner of the First National Lyrics Writing Competition with the Dutch song text Tegen beter weten in (Against the odds) (1995). This led to the music CD Allemaal mensen (All of them human) in 1996. Ethnopharmacologist (talk) 11:09, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
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editHello, Ethnopharmacologist, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited appears to be an article about yourself. Writing about yourself is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians.
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- Thanks, this contribution relates to my father. He is a renowned international scientist and has been praised for his many achievements in pharmaceutical patient care. He was even knighted on behalf of the Dutch King. I would consider him to be a notable person. Would it be possible to please review the article in that respect, ie a profile of a notable person? Thank you 62.195.14.8 (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- Well, he is notable. However, since you have a conflict-of-interest, I'd advise you to try tone down any promotional language and unsourced content. ''Flux55'' (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, could you please give some examples of things that would need to go? Ethnopharmacologist (talk) 18:23, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- Well, he is notable. However, since you have a conflict-of-interest, I'd advise you to try tone down any promotional language and unsourced content. ''Flux55'' (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)