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An Introduction to Clinical Pharmaceutics
Florence, A T
First edition
Alexander T Florence - Former Dean, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK
This unique textbook considers the role of basic pharmaceutics in determining or modifying clinical outcomes and in explaining the behavior of medicines in the body, including adverse reactions due to formulations and excipients.
An Introduction to Clinical Pharmaceutics covers recent developments such as personalized therapies and nanotechnology. All of the principles underpinning clinical pharmaceutics are supported using relevant examples from recent literature and clinical case studies, including issues of:
This book is aimed at undergraduate pharmacy students, those on taught Masters courses of clinical and hospital pharmacy, and new practitioners who require an updating on the relevance of the subject that is virtually unique to pharmacy.
An Introduction to Clinical Pharmaceutics covers recent developments such as personalized therapies and nanotechnology. All of the principles underpinning clinical pharmaceutics are supported using relevant examples from recent literature and clinical case studies, including issues of:
- formulation and excipients
- surface tension
- rheology
- solubility
- crystallization and precipitation
- aggregation
- absorption
This book is aimed at undergraduate pharmacy students, those on taught Masters courses of clinical and hospital pharmacy, and new practitioners who require an updating on the relevance of the subject that is virtually unique to pharmacy.
Introduction
Book Outline
1. What Is Clinical Pharmaceutics?
2. Excipients: Not Always Inert
3. Thinking Chemically
4. Looking at Formulations
5. Adverse Events and Formulations and Devices
6. Generic Medicines: Conventional Drugs and Biologicals
7. Paediatric, Geriatric Medicines and Special Formulation
8. The Future: Delivery Systems for Modern Therapeutics
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