Oxford Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Therapy

The new edition of the "Oxford Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Therapy" continues to provide medical students and clinicians with an insight into why drugs have their therapeutic effects, by presenting the basic pharmacological principles of pharmacology as they effect the patient. An understanding of these clinical pharmacological principles is essential for rational, safe, effective, and economical prescribing. The text shows how knowledge of the scientific basis of drug action is applied in a clinical context to devise the most effective treatments for disease and to maximize the therapeutic effects of the drugs being used. This new edition includes an appraisal of the value of evidence-based medicine and a greater discussion of issues in genetics. There are specialist contributors for areas of infectious disease, gastro-intestinal disorders, blood disorders, general anaesthesia, cancer chemotherapy and immunosuppression. The revision also includes updates to both the pharmacopoeia and the drug therapy section to reflect new developments in both available drugs and in their use.

ISBN 0198509448   Pages 656 ISBN13 9780198509448 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1805 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Previous ISBN 9780192616760 Format Hardback   Height (mm) 270 Publication date 01 May 2002   Width (mm) 210 DEWEY 615.58   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		A note about drug nomenclature
		Consulting authors
Sect. 1		Clinical pharmacology: the scientific basis of drug therapy
1		The four processes of drug therapy
2		The pharmaceutical process: is the drug getting into the patient?
3		The pharmacokinetic process: is the drug getting to its site of action?
4		The pharmacodynamic process: is the drug producing the required pharmacological effect?
5		The therapeutic process: is the pharmacological being translated into a therapeutic effect?
6		Practical applications of the analysis of drug therapy
7		Monitoring drug therapy
8		Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics
9		Adverse reactions to drugs
10		Drug interactions
11		Drug therapy in young and old people
12		Drug therapy and reproduction
13		Patient compliance/concordance
14		Placebos
15		Drug discovery and development: the pharmaceutical industry and the regulatory authorities
16		Drug trials
17		The drug history and the clinical examination and investigation of drug effects
Sect. 2		Practical prescribing
18		Principles of prescribing
19		How to write a prescription
20		Sources of information on drugs
Sect. 3		The drug therapy of disease
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