Student Textbook Award Winner and Highly Commended in the Basic and Clinical Sciences Category, BMA Awards 2007! This new edition of the bestselling Rang & Dale's Pharmacology presents all the knowledge you need to get through your pharmacology course and beyond ― using a clear and accessible approach that makes the material easy and interesting to learn, and moving from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions to the clinical uses of the most important groups of drugs.
A straightforward way to master a complex subject!
If you're just embarking on your education in pharmacology I might recommend another textbook. Rang and Dale can be a bit detailed and heavy when you're just starting off. Personally, I did start learning pharmacology using Rang and Dale and I'm one of the best at pharmacology in my year level.
The diagrams explaining the mechanisms of action of drug types are very helpful. Also, information which is for historical interest is in a reduced font size which helps the reader identify important content.
This is kind of like the idiot's guide to, but for pharmacology and with amazing pictures/drug tables/so on. Perfect for the beginner. If you need more, and (literally) have the muscle, go to Goodman and Gillman's. This is just so lovely, concise portable in comparison, considering that I only need one hand to lift this up. I don't really need to know the chemical structure of everything just yet, so I will cuddle my R&D and hope I learn something about drugs.
R&D is the kind of book you use when you know your examiner will pick on you at the exam. I had to read it because my exam was demanding. I also read Crash course pharmacology and with 1/5 size you gain equal if not more pharmacology knowledge in less time. The Pharmacokinetics section is probably on the better side but so long by the time you are half way through it, I can read it in Lippincott's pharmacology twice.
I read this book to review pharmacy drugs for summer break. It is not very helpful in clinical applications because it does not include disease states and when or how to dose and use the medications. It goes into great detail about drug mechanisms of action and receptors in the body. If you can memorize the mechanisms of action of drugs then you should skip this book.
very helpful and gives you understanding not only about the drugs, but also the diseases and some basic knowledge regarding the mechanisms and ways of body response to a drug (pharmaodynamics & kinetics).
So complicated but if you have a specific topic you want to tackle its still easily accesible. If you dont have a fair background in chemstry/organic chemistry dont even bother opening it.
Not read except a little on the opiates chapter. It'd be nice to think one can read everything before one expires but this book proves that is not possible.