TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Peter N.
AU  - Brown,Morris J.
TI  - Clinical Pharmacology
SN  - 9780443102455
AV  - RM300 .B46 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
KW  - Clinical pharmacology
KW  - Pharmacology, Clinical
N1  - Includes Bibliographical references and Index; SECTION 1
General
1 Clinical pharmacology
2 Topics in drug therapy
3 Discovery and development of drugs
4 Evaluation of drugs in man
5 Official regulation of medicines
6 Classification and naming of drugs
SECTION 2
From Pharmacology to Toxicology
7 General pharmacology
8 Unwanted effects and adverse drug reactions
9 Poisoning, overdose, antidotes
10 Drug abuse
SECTION 3
Infection and Inflammation
11 Chemotherapy of infections
12 Antibacterial drugs
13 Chemotherapy of bacterial infections
14 Viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthic infections
15 Drugs for inflammation and rheumatological disease
16 Drugs and the skin. SECTION 4
Nervous System
17 Pain and analgesics
18 Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block
19 Psychotropic drugs
20 Epilepsy, parkinsonism and allied conditions
SECTION 5
Cardiosespiratory and Renal Systems
24 Cardiac arrhythmia and failure
25 Hyperlipidaemias
26 Kidney and genitourinary tract
27 Respiratory system
SECTION 6
Blood and Neoplastic Disease
28 Drugs and haemostasis
29 Cellular disorders and anaemias
30 Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression
SECTION 7
Gastrointestinal System
31 Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
32 Intestines
33 Liver, biliary tract, pancreas
SECTION 8
Endocrine System, Metabolic Conditions
34 Ardenal corticosteroids, antagonists
35 Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabetes agents, obesity
36 Thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs
37 Hypothalamic, pituitary and sex hormones
38 Vitamins, calcium, bone
N2  - This book is about the rational scientific basis and practice of drug therapy. Doctors need to understand the psychological and medical area in which they prescribe to deliver what patients have a right to expect, i.e. maximum benefit with minimum risk
ER  -