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Essential Clinical Pharmacology

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  1. Peter Lewis

    1. Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London, UK
      Queen Charlotte’s Hospital London, UK

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction to Therapeutics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Essentials of clinical pharmacology

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 3-13

    3. Names and classes of drugs

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 14-16

    4. Adverse effects of drugs

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 17-21

  3. Chemotherapy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Drugs and infectious disease

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 25-33

    3. Tuberculosis and tropical diseases

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 34-37

    4. Drugs and the immune system

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 38-43

    5. Cancer chemotherapy

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 44-48

  4. The Central Nervous System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Drugs and the central nervous system

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 51-53

    3. Anaesthetics

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 54-59

    4. Analgesics

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 60-64

    5. Hypnotics

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 65-67

    6. Antiepileptics

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 68-71

    7. Psychotropic drugs

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 72-76

    8. Parkinson’s disease

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 77-80

    9. Social and addictive drugs

      • Peter Lewis
      Pages 81-84

  5. The Autonomic Nervous System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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About this book

This book is about drugs and how they are used in the treat­ ment of disease. The development of effective drugs is one of the wonders of our century. It is difficult to believe that so few of the medicines we now use routinely were available when our grandparents were children. The last 50 years has seen an astonishing burst of dis­ coveries - antibiotics, antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics, psycho­ tropics, anticonvulsants, steroids and many others. Of course this pace of advance has brought problems. Modern drugs are more powerful than the remedies they replaced, so it takes more skill and knowledge to use them correctly. Therapeutics has had to become more disciplined and now relies heavily on clinical pharma­ cology, which is the science of drugs in man. The tradition of this series of books has been to answer the questions an intelligent person would ask about a particular subject. Conventional texts on pharmacology can seem rather dull catalogues of drugs. Of course it is important to identify a drug, but it seems of greater importance to know how drugs work, how they are chosen for particular patients, what problems they produce and why. In this book the Socratic question and answer format has been deliberately chosen to bring out this sort of information.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London, UK

    Peter Lewis

  • Queen Charlotte’s Hospital London, UK

    Peter Lewis

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essential Clinical Pharmacology

  • Authors: Peter Lewis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7243-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: P. J. Lewis 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-85200-372-5Published: 31 January 1982

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7243-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 180

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology

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