Modern Pharmaceutics, Fourth Edition Revised and Expanded

Drug products; principles of drug absorption; pharmacokinetics; factors influencing drug absorption and drug availability; the effect route of administration and distribution on drug action; chemical kinetics and drug stability; preformulation; cutaneous and transdermal delivery; disperse systems; tablet dosage forms; hard and soft shell capsules; parenteral products; design and evaluation of ophthalmic pharmaceutical products; pharmaceutical aerosols; sustained and controlled release drug delivery systems; target-oriented drug delivery systems; packaging of pharmaceutical dosage forms; optimization techniques in pharmaceutical formulation and processing; food and drug laws that affect drug product design, manufacture and distribution; international aspects of the regulation of drug products; paediatric and geriatric aspects of pharmaceutics; biotechnology-based pharmaceuticals; veterinary pharmaceutical dosage forms; a view to the future.