Book[edited by] Morris J. Brown, Pankaj Sharma, Fraz A. Mir, Peter N. Bennett.
Contents:
1. Clinical pharmacology
2. Topics in drug therapy
3. Discovery and development of drugs
4. Evaluation of drugs in humans
5. Health technology assessment
6. Regulation of medicines
7. Classification and naming of drugs
8. General pharmacology
9. Unwanted effects and adverse drug reactions
10. Poisoning, overdose, antidotes
11. Drug dependence
12. Chemotherapy of infections
13. Antibacterial drugs
14. Chemotherapy of bacterial infections
15. Viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthic infections
16. Drugs for inflammation and joint disease
17. Drugs and the skin
18. Pain and analgesics
19. Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block
20. Psychotropic drugs
21. Neurological disorders- epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis
22. Cholinergic and antimuscarinic (anticholinergic) mechanisms and drugs
23. Adrenergic mechanisms and drugs
24. Arterial hypertension, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and heart failure
25. Cardiac arrhythmia
26. Hyperlipidaemias
27. Kidney and genitourinary tract
28. Respiratory system
29. Drugs and haemostasis
30. Red blood cell disorders
31. Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression
32. Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
33. Intestines
34. Liver and biliary tract
35. Adrenal corticosteroids, antagonists, corticotropin
36. Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabestes agents, obesity
37. Thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs
38. Hypothalamic, pituitary and sex hormones
39. Vitamins, calcium, bone.