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Peter A. G. M. De Smet

Peter A. G. M. De Smet is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Peter A. G. M. De Smet rather than just read about it. In short: Peter A.G.M. De Smet is a retired drug information pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist, emeritus professor of pharmaceutical patient care, and lyricist.

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Reference excerpt

Peter A.G.M. De Smet 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), which led to the music CD Allemaal mensen (All of them human) in 1996.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Peter A. G. M. De Smet

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Peter A. G. M. De Smet claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Peter A. G. M. De Smet before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Peter A. G. M. De Smet ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Peter A. G. M. De Smet

In research: Peter A. G. M. De Smet appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Peter A. G. M. De Smet in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Peter A. G. M. De Smet is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1952 births, Clinical pharmacologists, Dutch lyricists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Peter A. G. M. De Smet outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Peter A. G. M. De Smet in simple terms?

Peter A.G.M. De Smet is a retired drug information pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist, emeritus professor of pharmaceutical patient care, and lyricist.

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Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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