[Research schools in pharmacy. 1. Theory and methods in research schools in pharmacy; 29. The history of pharmaceutical science].

Part 1: On the theory and the methodology of research schools Contributions on the History of pharmaceutical science, part 29. The paper is the first part of an extensive investigation about the development of research schools of pharmacy. The major purpose of this part is to give a definition of pharmaceutical research schools and a methodology for the historical study of research schools. In trying to postulate and analyse the most propitious conditions by which a research school could flourish in the time from the end of the 18th century to the end of the 20th century, we have clearly take into account aspects, chief elements, such as the director or teacher, the scientific programme the students, the research conditions and the public and social recognition. To this aspects is given a methodological-programme for the historical analysis.