Principles of Pharmacology

Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, 2e Paperback – April 27, 2007

Author: David E. Golan MD PhD | Language: English | ISBN: 0781783550 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Doody's Review, Thomas L Pazdernik, PhD(University of Kansas Medical Center) -- This is a basic pharmacology textbook with an emphasis on the biochemical and cellular mechanisms required for understanding the treatment of pathophysiological conditions. This is a collaborative effort by Harvard medical faculty and students to prepare a book useful for students who are studying pharmacology as part of their curriculum. This is particularly useful for courses that focus on the biochemical, cellular, and physiological basis of drug action. The strength of this book lies in the numerous excellent figures that explain the cellular and molecular aspects of drug actions on a physiological basis. This second edition has 100 new or extensively redesigned figures. The sections on fundamentals of drug development and regulation and frontiers in pharmacology provide a perspective not found in most fundamental pharmacology books. An access code is provided for an electronic version of the book and images. A companion case-based workbook, Principles of Pharmacology Workbook, by Farrell (Lippincott Williams Wilkins, 2008), reviews important concepts and drug classes in a question-and-answer format that is valuable for course and board exam review. Four Stars. Weighted Numerical Score: 93

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Paperback: 985 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2.00 edition (April 27, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781783550
ISBN-13: 978-0781783552
Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.3 x 10.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
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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.