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Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, 2e

Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, 2e
From Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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. "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #14633 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-04-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 985 pages

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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

Customer Reviews

Huge, but excellent for really understanding material5
Exceptional for learning the basics. I had a few all-important concepts that I just couldn't get: G-proteins, the anterior pituitary hormones, and the alpha/beta/cholinergic agonists and antagonists. After struggling to learn each of these several times from lecture notes and other books, I turned to this book. It worked well for me because it teaches in a conceptual way and helps develop your understanding of the material. It will take a little more time, but if this is the way you learn, it will really help.

I went back to this book many times when I ran into difficult questions reviewing for Step 1 and realized that I didn't really understand the basic concepts.

Not the book to use the night before your pharm exam: for that, I'd use the small Katzung and Trevor.

A really nice review book5
Professor Golan used his copy notes for this book in our class this year, so we basically had the book without the cover or index, but otherwise it was all intact. Almost everyone in our class really loved the book--it gives a basic overview of each area of physiology and pathophysiology and then described the therapies used to treat the pathology. The book was mostly written by students, and it shows b/c everything is super easy to understand and is really geared towards a medical student. Also, this seems to be the only comprehensive textbook of pharmacology that divides the drugs by pathophysiology on the market, as everything else (Katzung, etc.) are laundry lists of drugs, albeit providing more information on each separate drugs. I think I would supplement this book with Katzung (or vice versa.) In any case, I recommend it!

Just get this book as soon as possible!5
The second edition is usually better than the first one, and the first one was simply excellent! A great book, with a problem-based learning approach in mind, updated and with many new and important chapters (Protein Therapies, Drug Delivery Advances, Pharmacogenetics, among others). The good thing with this book is that any chapter deals with the necessary coverage of anatomy, physiology, pathology and so on before coming to the drugs facts. With the early med student in mind, the book will be useful for any health related career. The book is clear, is concise -notwithstanding comprehensive-, and with a complete set of drug facts tables at the end of most chapters. Simply said, the kind of book I'd liked to write myself.

One more thing: The book is brilliantly complemented by its companion book, "Principles of Pharmacology Workbook", by S. Farrell, a great account of more than 100 clinical cases regarding each chapter of the main book, with no less than five questions -and their corresponding answers- for every one of the cases. The ideal complement to make this couple of books the best pharmacology books in the scene today. I work very actively with both of them in teaching my own pharmacology courses.