Progress in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology / Effects of Drugs on Human Functioning
1st Edition
Published in 1993
Book
Hardback
XII, 184 pages
978-3-8055-5632-3 (ISBN)
Description
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the impact of specific drug classes on human functioning and quality of life. It opens with a discussion of the effects of drugs on behaviour and the research methodology employed to collect data. Further chapters cover the effects of prescription and, where appropriate, over-the-counter drugs used in several areas of medicine: antihypertensives, antihistamines, psychiatric drugs, anticonvulsants in children, and drugs in the treatment of the elderly. The concluding chapter considers the use of drugs in medical treatment from a humanitarian point of view.
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Content
Drugs and behaviour - an introduction, S. Streufert and F.M. Gengo; antihypertensives and quality of life, S. Streufert and R. Pogash; effects of drugs on human functioning - antihistamines, C. Manning and F.M. Gengo; psychotropic and narcotic drugs and quality of life, E.D. Martin; cognitive and behavioural effects of anticonvulsants in children, M.H. Kohrman; central nervous system effects of drug therapy in aged individuals, T. Fullerton and F.M. Gengo; bringing quality of life to bear in the clinic, D.J. Hufford.