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    Clinical pharmacology / P.N. Bennett, M.J. Brown.

    • Title:Clinical pharmacology / P.N. Bennett, M.J. Brown.
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    • Author/Creator:Bennett, P. N.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Brown, M. J. (Morris Jonathan)
    • Published/Created:Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2003.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects: Clinical pharmacology.
    • Medical Subjects:Pharmacology, Clinical.
    • Edition:9th ed.
    • Description:xiv, 789 pages : illustrations.
    • Summary:Designed for students, doctors and all concerned with evidence-based drug therapy, this text aims to increase success in therapeutics through an understanding of how drugs get into the body, how they produce their effects, what happens to them in the body, and how evidence of their therapeutic effect is assessed. This information should help those involved in choosing drugs more skilfully, and to use them more successfully.
    • Notes:8th ed. / D.R. Laurence, P.N. Bennett, M.J. Brown, 1997.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0443064806
    • Contents:Sect. 1. General
      1. Topics in drug therapy
      2. Clinical pharmacology
      3. Discovery and development of drugs
      4. Evaluation of drugs in man
      5. Official regulation of medicines
      6. Classification and naming of drugs
      Sect. 2. From Pharmacology to Toxicology
      7. General pharmacology
      8. Unwanted effects and adverse drug reactions
      9. Poisoning, overdose, antidotes
      10. Nonmedical use of drugs
      Sect. 3. Infection and Inflammation
      11. Chemotherapy of infections
      12. Antibacterial drugs
      13. Chemotherapy of bacterial infections
      14. Viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthic infections
      15. Inflammation, arthritis and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
      16. Drugs and the skin
      Sect. 4. Nervous System
      17. Pain and analgesics
      18. Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block
      19. Psychotropic drugs
      20. Epilepsy, parkinsonism and allied conditions
      Sect. 5. Cardiorespiratory and Renal Systems
      21. Cholinergic and antimuscarinic (anticholingergic) mechanisms and drugs
      22. Adrenergic mechanisms and drugs
      23. Arterial hypertension, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction
      24. Cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac failure
      25. Hyperlipidaemias
      26. Kidney and Genitourinary tract
      27. Respiratory system
      Sect. 6. Blood and Neoplastic Disease
      28. Drugs and haemostasis
      29. Cellular disorders and anaemias
      30. Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression
      Sect. 7. Gastrointestinal System
      31. Stomach, oesophagus and duodenum
      32. Intestines
      33. Liver, biliary tract, pancreas
      Sect. 8. Endocrine System, Metabolic Conditions
      34. Adrenal corticosteroids, antagonists, corticotrophin
      35. Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabetes agents, obesity
      36. Thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs
      37. Hypothalamic, pituitary and sex hormones
      38. Vitamins, calcium, bone.
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