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Publisher:		Wilkins
Edition:		2.00
Date:		April 1, 2007
Binding:		Paperback
Pages:		985

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This primary textbook for a first course in pharmacology offers an integrated, systems-based, and mechanism-based approach to understanding drug therapy. Each chapter focuses on a target organ system, begins with a clinical case, and incorporates cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology to explain how and why different drug classes are effective for diseases in that organ system. Over 400 two-color illustrations show molecular, cellular, biochemical, and pathophysiologic processes underlying diseases and depict targets of drug therapy. Each Second Edition chapter includes a drug summary table presenting mechanism, clinical applications, adverse effects, contraindications, and therapeutic considerations. New chapters explain how drugs produce adverse effects and describe the life cycle of drug development. The fully searchable online text and an image bank are available on thePoint. "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."

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Review of Principles of Pharmacology, February 20, 2010

I thought this book had a bit to much detail to use while studying pharmacology during Basic Sciences. There are other books that will cover the essential things you need to know in fewer pages. I did like the fact that this book provides on-line access, and the charts at the end of each chapter provide excellent summaries.
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Good Supplimental Pharmacology Text, January 29, 2010

This book can help you get a handle on important concepts in modern pharmacology. The organization is sensible and the writing/editing is above average. I must admit that Goodman & Gilman's (G&G) "The Pharmacological Basis of THERAPEUTICS" is a more comprehensive book that I plan on keeping for a long time. However, G&G can be difficult to read if you have not seen its material previously. Thus I think that this book is a highly appropriate learning tool. So if you are a professional Pharm.D. student, this book can/will help you, but you will need to master the content to a more detailed degree to succeed (get G&G 11th+ ed). That being said, this book will still benefit you greatly. Also, if you are a student or curious person whom wants to know how drugs work, this book should cover all your basic needs. This book should be all that a M.D. or R.N. student should need (specialist excluded) to make it through their training. Absolute genius students can get by without this book, but they will still have to read something. The book is quit clinically oriented and covers most of the first-line therapeutics with examples. It does not provide much medicinal chemistry (not this books job anyway). The end of chapter drug summaries are helpful. One of my personal favorite properties of the book is that it errs on the side of redundancy, if two concepts are intimately connected in different chapters, without being verbose (like me). This book does not cover pharmacokinetics past what is clinically relevant (no math to speak of), unless the kinetics of the drug are highly important in predicting its pharmacodynamics. I have not used the book's online resources. The one thing I must restate is this: this book is not an exhaustive authority on all things pharmacological, but is a helpful learning tool to get up to speed for clinical practice in typical situations. I consistently use this book as a helpful tool as a Ph.D. candidate pursuing a dual specialization in pharmacology and toxicology. I purchased the book through Amazon.
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Required Reading, September 9, 2009

This textbook is required reading for the Pathobiology and Therapeutics course at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Seems to include all the important details and more..
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ok its pharm., June 5, 2009

Ok it was a required book for school- but it is actually not that bad of a book to read. very organized in section selection - so you can relate one thing to another.
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Great Pharm book for med students, January 2, 2009

This is a great book that provides a framework for understanding pharmaceutical therapeutics. The summary tables are excellent.
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