Clinical Pharmacology
| Series: | |
| Publisher: | Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier |
| Subject: | Clinical pharmacology, Pharmacology, Clinical. |
| Authors: | P. N. Bennett , Morris Jonathan Brown |
| Pages: | 694 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 9780443102448 |
| Call No: | RM 301.28 L38 2008 |
"Doctors who understand 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, will choose drugs more skilfully, and use them more successfully than those who do not. The principles involved are neither so numerous nor so difficult to understand as to deter any prescriber, including those whose primary interests lie elsewhere than in pharmacology. Additionally, success in therapeutics requires that principles be brought into practice. Expert contributors, including many new to this edition, demonstrate how effective prescribing can be achieved in the major specialist areas." "All who use drugs cannot escape either the moral or the legal 'duty of care' to prescribe in an informed and responsible way, especially given the increased public awareness of the risks, costs and benefits of drug therapy."--BOOK JACKET.