This book covers the whole gamut of pharmacology including basic principles, brief review of pathophysiology of major diseases, and pharmacological basis of therapeutics. Each chapter opens with a list of contents at a glance. The coverage in the text includes pharmacokinetics, pharmacological actions, mode of action, clinical applications, preparations, dosages, drug interactions, contraindications and adverse effects. At the end of each chapter, study questions as well as references as guide are given for further reading. The level of integrative approach closely matches the needs of medical, pharmacy and dental students.
This book covers the whole gamut of pharmacology including basic principles, brief review of pathophysiology of major diseases, and pharmacological basis of therapeutics. The text covers pharmacokinetics, pharmacological actions, mode of action, clinical applications, preparations, dosages, drug interactions, contraindications and adverse effects. What’s NEW: • Two chapter added to further strengthen the scope of the Book-Pharmacovigilance & Stem cells • Both the chapters include basics and potential uses New three appendices added which comprises of: • Overviews of Pharmionics • Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Features: Text is organized in a sequence that builds new information on the information already assimilated The objective of this text is to provide a basic understanding of the subject A step by step, easy to grasp approach has been followed to understand explanation for the scientific basis of drug therapy The book is: Intended primarily for the 2nd year Medical Undergraduates Also useful to Pharmacy and Dental students
VN Sharma is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, and Technical Advisor, LBS College of Pharmacy, Jaipur. He was Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur; Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, and Principal, SN Medical College, Jodhpur, and SP Medical College, Bikaner; Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi (Libya); Professor of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Sulaimaniya (Iraq); Chief, Planning and Development, Rajasthan Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Jaipur; Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Al Fateh University, Tripoli (Libya). His teaching experience spans more than 40 years and during this period, he was awarded Visiting Exchange Scholar Followship, College of Medicine, Chicago; Commonwealth Sr. Medical Fellowship, University of London; Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize by ICMR. He is a member of several professional societies, Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences. He has been President of Indian Pharmacological Society. At 42nd Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, 2009, Kolkata, he was felicitated for lifetime achievement in appreciation of his pioneering research and outstanding contributions to the discipline of pharmacology. He has to his credit more than 140 original research papers. He is also co-author of the book Ocular Pharmacology
