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The essential pharmaceutics textbook One of the world’s best-known texts on pharmaceutics, Aulton's Pharmaceutics offers a complete course in one book for students in all years of undergraduate pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences degrees. Thoroughly revised, updated and extended by experts in their fields and edited by Professors Kevin Taylor and Michael Aulton, this new edition includes the science of formulation, pharmaceutical manufacturing and drug delivery. All aspects of pharmaceutics are covered in a clear and readily accessible way and extensively illustrated throughout, providing an essential companion to the entire pharmaceutics curriculum from day one until the end of the course.
3211 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2007
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November 30, 2013
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October 17, 2019
It was easy to read and really useful during the Galenic Pharmacy course.
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January 30, 2013
I taught second year pharmacy students a physical chemistry module from the first twelve chapters of this book and found it a frustrating experience.
There were far too many equations for my poor students to have a hope of remembering, many of them poorly contextualised and assuming a background in the physical sciences that second year pharmacy students in this country (Australia) do not have.
Well, perhaps that is okay; perhaps we should set the bar high, considering the vast resources available at the fingertips of modern students. But unfortunately a great number of the equations are wrong. Within a few chapters, statements are rendered baffling by writing 'r' instead of 'rho', 't' instead of 'T', 'x' where a multiplication sign is meant, and by careless sign reversals. Expression 4.33 is upside down. Figure 5.7 is a plot of something other than what the caption says it is. In the size reduction chapter 1 micrometre is quoted as the threshold between Kick-type and Rittinger-type milling, rather than 1 millimetre. Etc. These are all small errors, but I had to correct them with weary regularity and I pity a student trying to master the content without assistance.
For a third edition, Aulton's Pharmaceutics is disappointing. The errors in content make it an unreliable reference monograph, while the lack of any problems for students to solve or worked examples make it of limited utility as a textbook.
There were far too many equations for my poor students to have a hope of remembering, many of them poorly contextualised and assuming a background in the physical sciences that second year pharmacy students in this country (Australia) do not have.
Well, perhaps that is okay; perhaps we should set the bar high, considering the vast resources available at the fingertips of modern students. But unfortunately a great number of the equations are wrong. Within a few chapters, statements are rendered baffling by writing 'r' instead of 'rho', 't' instead of 'T', 'x' where a multiplication sign is meant, and by careless sign reversals. Expression 4.33 is upside down. Figure 5.7 is a plot of something other than what the caption says it is. In the size reduction chapter 1 micrometre is quoted as the threshold between Kick-type and Rittinger-type milling, rather than 1 millimetre. Etc. These are all small errors, but I had to correct them with weary regularity and I pity a student trying to master the content without assistance.
For a third edition, Aulton's Pharmaceutics is disappointing. The errors in content make it an unreliable reference monograph, while the lack of any problems for students to solve or worked examples make it of limited utility as a textbook.
March 16, 2014
A must-have for all pharmacy students!
I'm in the second year of my degree and this book has been sooooo useful. A lot of what is in the syllabus is covered in this book. It is easy to read and the explanations are very good.
Many the authors of this book are my lecturers at uni so whenever I miss a lecture or do not understand something I know I can rely on this book to keep on top of things :)
I'm in the second year of my degree and this book has been sooooo useful. A lot of what is in the syllabus is covered in this book. It is easy to read and the explanations are very good.
Many the authors of this book are my lecturers at uni so whenever I miss a lecture or do not understand something I know I can rely on this book to keep on top of things :)
January 6, 2013
By far the best and most comprehensive pharmaceutics book out there.
April 3, 2016
a very good book to start with, it even gives some recent advances in the pharmaceutical field,as masters student i got a good knowledge from it (with addition to journals and articles).
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