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Concise Clinical Pharmacology
Ben Greenstein
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Adam Greenstein
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Pharmaceutical Press
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London-Chicago (First edition)
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J. W. F. van Mil (&) Margrietlaan 1, Zuidlaren 9471 CT,
The Netherlands
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Clinical pharmacology is an important field in pharmacy. It
helps pharmacists assessing the validity of prescriptions,
discussing pharmacotherapy with colleagues and
physicians, and understanding pharmacotherapy in general.
The book Concise Clinical Pharmacology by Green
and Green indeed is concise clinical pharmacology. In its
300 pages it presents almost all aspects of body functions,
drugs and diseases. It helps the reader to understand how
most medicines exert their actions and how to apply this
knowledge to rational pharmacotherapy. It could be that
this book is less suitable for first year students because it is
concise and yet comprehensive, but it certainly is very
helpful for practicing (clinical and non-clinical)
pharmacists. Additionally, the format (21.5 13.7 cm) is very
handy, but some people will need their reading glasses to
be able to study some of the graphs.
A minor comment could be that the topics of the
chapters seem to be a mixture of bodily functions, diseases
and medicine types. That makes finding information not so
easy, but there is a comprehensive index. The glossary of
terms is also very helpful for those who are no accustomed
to medical-English terminology.
A second point of criticism could be that the content of
the book is very fundamental. The finer (and newer)
principles of clinical pharmacology like the use of genetic
information are not (yet) sufficiently discussed. There also
is little general attention for drugdrug and drugfood
interactions, although they constitute a large part of the
drug-related problems that pharmacists must deal with in
everyday practice.
In spite of these minor comments, I feel that this book
can be very helpful for pharmacists in their daily practice.
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