This book covers the rational scientific basis and practice of drug therapy.  The book explores the psychological and medical areas that patients have a right to expect such as the maximum benefit with minimum risk. The range of general topics includes: benefits and risks, the public view of drugs and prescribers, complementary and conventional medicine. Also discussed is  responsibility for drug-caused injury such as why drug therapy causes unavoidable risk. There are also discussions of the evaluation of medicines, ethics of drug research, the scientific basis of pharmacology, adverse drug reactions, and non-medical and social use of drugs.

Clinical pharmacology,

Medical Books

D.R. Laurence

Pharmacology

Harcourt Brace/Churchill Livingstone

Clinical Pharmacology

P.N. Bennett

Churchill/Livingstone

Clinical pharmacology

ELBS

Clinical Pharmacology (ELBS)

Churchill Livingstone ELBS

Churchill

Medicine You Take: Benefits and Risks of Modern Drugs

J.W. Black

James Hay Black

Croom Helm, Ltd.

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