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Tenth Edition
By
P. Bennett, MD, FRCP, Consultant Physician, Royal United Hospital, Bath; Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Morris Brown, MSc, MD, FRCP, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cambridge; Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge and Director of Studies, Gonville and Caius College, 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.
Contents
Section 1 General. Topics in drug therapy and clinical pharmacology. Clinical pharmacology. Discovery and development of drugs. Evaluation
of drugs in man. Official regulation of medicines. Classification of drugs: names of drugs. Section 2 From Pharmacology to Toxicology.
General pharmacology. Unwanted effects of drugs: adverse reactions. Poisoning, drug overdose, antidotes. Non-medical use of drugs.
Section 3 Inflammation, Immunology, Infection. Chemotherapy. Antibacterial drugs. Chemotherapy of bacterial infections. Chemotherapy
of viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthis infections. Inflammation, arthritis and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Drugs and the skin. Section 4 Nervous System. Pain and analgesics, drugs in palliative care, narcotic analgesics. Sleep and hypnotics,
anxiety and anxiolytics. Drugs and mental disorder, psychotropics and psychoactive drugs. Epilepsy, parkinsonism and allied conditions.
Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block. Section 5 Cardiorespiratory and Renal Systems. Cholinergic (Cholomimetic) and antimuscarinic
(anticholinergic) drugs. Adrenergic mechanisms, sympathomimetics, shock, hypotention. Drugs used in arterial hypertension and angina.
Cardiac dysrhythmia and cardiac failure. Hyperlipidaemias. Kidney and urinary tracts. Respiratory system. Section 6 Blood and Neoplastic
Disease. Drugs and haemostasis. Cellular disorders and anaemias. Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression. Section 7 Gastrointestinal
System. Stomach and oesophagus. Intestines. Liver, biliary tract and pancreas. Section 8 Endocrine System, Metabolic Conditions.
Adrenal corticosteroids, antagonists, corticotrophin. Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabetic agents. Thyroid hormones, antithyroid
drugs. Hypothalmic and pituitary hormones sex hormones, contraception, uterus. Vitamins, calcium bone.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 704 pages, publication date: DEC-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10244-8
ISBN-10: 0-443-10244-9
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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