Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0781783550 ISBN 13: 9780781783552

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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Product Description

A textbook for a first course in pharmacology that offers an integrated, systems-based, and mechanism-based approach to understanding drug therapy. It also features over 400 two-color illustrations that show molecular, cellular, biochemical, and pathophysiologic processes underlying diseases and depict targets of drug therapy.

Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0781783550
• ISBN 13: 9780781783552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 985
• Editor: Golan David E., Tashjian Armen H., Armstrong Ehrin J., Armstrong April Wang