Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy PDF

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Unlike other pharmacology texts organized by drug class, Principles of Pharmacology integrates relevant knowledge from the basic biomedical sciences - physiology, pathophysiology, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, anatomy, neurobiology, microbiology and immunology - to build an integrated, conceptual understanding of drug therapy. By discussing the therapeutic and adverse actions of drugs in the framework of the drug's mechanism of action, the book enables students to achieve a level of mastery in pharmacology that far surpasses that achieved by rote memorization. The result is a primary pharmacology textbook that is ideal for a systems-based or discipline-based course in pharmacology.

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• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2nd edition (April 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781746787
• ISBN-13: 978-0781746786
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds

Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy PDF

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.