By
Peter Bennett, MD FRCP DPMSA, Formerly Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bath, and Consultant Physician, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK
Morris Brown, MA MSc FRCP FAHA FMedSci, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cambridge; Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge;
and Director of Clinical Studies, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Description
This book is for students, doctors and indeed for all concerned with evidence-based drug therapy. A knowledge of pharmacological and therapeutic
principles is essential if drugs/medicines are to be used safely and effectively for increasingly informed and critical patients. Doctors
who understand how drugs get into the body, how they produce their effects, what happens to them in the body, and how evidence of their
therapeutic effect is assessed, will choose drugs more skilfully, and use them more successfully than those who do not. The principles
involved are neither so numerous nor so difficult to understand as to deter any prescriber, including those whose primary interests lie
elsewhere than in pharmacology. All who use drugs cannot escape either the moral or the legal 'duty of care' to prescribe in an informed
and responsible way.
