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Clinical pharmacology.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical pharmacology.
- Drugs.
- Pharmacology, Clinical.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pharmacology, Clinical.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (colour)
- Edition:
- 13th edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2026.
- Summary:
- More than 60 years since its first publication, Clinical Pharmacology remains an invaluable textbook that no clinician or prescriber, medical or pharmacy student should be without.This highly trusted guide to drug therapy covers the key elements of therapeutic pharmacology, including health technology assessment, drug regulation, dependence and toxicology, as well as polypharmacy. The essentials of clinical pharmacology are discussed by body system, balancing science with practice to support good prescribing.The thirteenth edition of Clinical Pharmacology has been fully updated to suit today’s context and therapeutic settings.
- Contents:
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Topics in Drug Therapy
- Discovery and Development of Drugs
- Evaluation of Drugs in Humans
- Health Technology Assessment for Pharmaceutical Products
- Regulation of Medicines
- Classification and Naming of Drugs
- Polypharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
- General Pharmacology
- Unwanted Effects and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Poisoning, Overdose, Antidotes
- Drug Dependence
- Chemotherapy of Infections
- Antibacterial Drugs
- Chemotherapy of Bacterial Infections
- Viral, Fungal, Protozoal and Helminthic Infections
- Therapeutics for COVID-19
- Drugs for Inflammation and Joint Disease
- Drugs and the Skin
- Pain and Analgesics
- Anaesthesia and Neuromuscular Block
- Psychotropic Drugs
- Neurological Disorders: Epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis
- Cholinergic and Antimuscarinic (Anticholinergic) Mechanisms and Drugs
- Adrenergic Mechanisms and Drugs
- Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Failure
- Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Hyperlipidaemias
- Kidney and Genitourinary Tract
- Respiratory System
- Drugs and Haemostasis
- Red Blood Cell Disorders
- Neoplastic Disease and Immunosuppression
- Oesophagus, Stomach and Duodenum
- Intestines
- Liver and Biliary Tract
- Adrenal Corticosteroids, Antagonists, Corticotropin
- Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity
- Thyroid Hormones, Antithyroid Drugs
- Hypothalamic, Pituitary and Sex Hormones
- Vitamins, Calcium and Bone.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2019.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 30, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9780323930994
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