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• Title:Oxford textbook of clinical pharmacology and drug therapy / D.G. Grahame-Smith and J.K. Aronson.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Grahame-Smith, David Grahame.
  Aronson, J. K. (Jeffrey Kenneth)
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB330 .G73 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Chemotherapy.
  Clinical pharmacology.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:xiv, 641 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.: 1992.
  Includes index.
  
• ISBN:0198509448 (hbk.)
  0192632345 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:note about drug nomenclature
  Sect. 1. Clinical pharmacology: the scientific basis of drug therapy
  1. four processes of drug therapy
  2. pharmaceutical process: is the drug getting into the patient?
  3. pharmacokinetic process: is the drug getting to its site of action?
  4. pharmacodynamic process: is the drug producing the required pharmacological effect?
  5. therapeutic process: is the pharmacological being translated into a therapeutic effect?
  6. Practical applications of the analysis of drug therapy
  7. Monitoring drug therapy
  8. Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics
  9. Adverse reactions to drugs
  10. Drug interactions
  11. Drug therapy in young and old people
  12. Drug therapy and reproduction
  13. Patient compliance/concordance
  14. Placebos
  15. Drug discovery and development: the pharmaceutical industry and the regulatory authorities
  16. Drug trials
  17. drug history and the clinical examination and investigation of drug effects
  Sect. 2. Practical prescribing
  18. Principles of prescribing
  19. How to write a prescription
  20. Sources of information on drugs
  Sect. 3. drug therapy of disease
  21. Introduction to drug therapy
  22. drug therapy of infectious diseases
  23. drug therapy of cardiovascular disorders
  24. drug therapy of respiratory diseases
  25. drug therapy of gastrointestinal, hepatic, and biliary disorders
  26. Drugs and the kidney and the drug therapy of renal, urinary tract, and prostatic disorders
  27. drug therapy of endocrine and metabolic disorders
  28. drug therapy of blood disorders
  29. drug therapy of disorders of bones and joints
  30. drug therapy of neurological disorders
  31. drug therapy of psychiatric disorders
  32. relief of pain
  33. General anaesthesia and local anaesthetics
  34. Drug dependence and abuse
  35. management of poisoning
  36. principles of cancer chemotherapy
  37. Immunosuppression and the drug therapy of allergies, connective tissue disorders, and primary immunodeficiencies
  Sect. 4. Pharmacopoeia
  Index to drugs listed in the pharmacopoeia
  Pharmacopoeia.