Pharmacology for Health Professionals, fifth edition, introduces essential pharmacology principles and concepts required to understand the therapeutic effects and clinical uses of current drugs and medicines.
Written for health sciences and nursing students and underpinned by current evidence-based medicine, this substantially updated edition continues to cover topics vital to a holistic understanding of pharmacology. These topics include historical, legal and ethical considerations, pharmacokinetics, and the therapeutic applications and adverse effects of current Australian and New Zealand drugs.
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978-0-7295-4275-3 (9780729542753)
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Professor in Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University, SA, Australia
Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical
Pharmacology, College of Medicine
and Public Health, Flinders University,
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Pharmacologist, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia
Unit 1: Introduction to Pharmacology
Unit 2: Principles of Pharmacology
Unit 3: Drugs Affecting the Peripheral Nervous System
Unit 4: Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System
Unit 5: Drugs Affecting the Heart and Vascular System
Unit 6: Drugs Affecting the Urinary System
Unit 7: Drugs Affecting the Blood
Unit 8: Drugs Affecting the Respiratory System
Unit 9: Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal System
Unit 10: Drugs Affecting the Endocrine System
Unit 11: Drugs Affecting the Reproductive System
Unit 12: Drugs Used in Neoplastic Diseases
Unit 13: Drugs Affecting Microorganisms
Unit 14: Drugs Affecting Body Defences
Unit 15: Special Topics
