Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy

From The Critics

Reviewer: Joseph Boullata, PharmD(University of Pennsylvania College of Nursing)
Description: This is the fifth edition of an important pharmaceutically-focused book on physical chemistry.
Purpose: Clinical pharmacy practices need to be based in the pharmaceutical sciences, and pharmaceutics/physical pharmacy is one of its truly unique sciences. The book hits the mark.
Audience: It is intended primarily for pharmacy students in both entry-level pharmacy degree programs and graduate programs in the pharmaceutical sciences. It also will be useful for those outside of the pharmacy profession with an interest in drug formulation and physicochemical properties.
Features: The 13 chapters cover many of the basic topics of physical pharmacy including drug stability, solubility, drug interactions, and include a new chapter on pharmaceutical nanotechnology. Each chapter opens with a brief description and raison d'être, and ends with a summary and a listing of the cited references (and further readings for some). In between, the clearly identified chapter headings and subsections make it easy to identify the individual concepts in the material, further supported by the inclusion of key points. The chapters include many figures and tables - the book contains a total of 328 figures (not including all the chemical structures) and 114 tables - along with generous numbers of relevant examples, schemes, and other informational boxes. In addition, examples of clinical pharmaceutics are highlighted throughout each chapter in new clinical points. The book also offers a useful 16-page index. A longer introductory chapter that more fully describes clinical pharmaceutics for students would have been welcome.
Assessment: This book helps provide pharmacy students a relevant introduction to physical chemistry. Along with pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry, knowledge of basic physicochemical principles is critical to the foundation on which pharmacy practices are built. For this important reason, Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy is highly recommended.

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This second-edition textbook first, 1981 emphasizes the applications of physical chemistry to the advanced practice of pharmacy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com