This revision guide for students delivers the essentials of dosage formulation in a concise and easy-to-use format.

A reference book for virology that provides coverage of all aspects of virology, including thorough coverage of virus biology as well as replication and medical aspects of specific virus families. It highlights viruses associated with cancer, including the new human polyomaviruses. It also includes chapters on circoviruses and mimiviruses.

A learning tool to aid preparation for undergraduate pharmacology examinations. It focuses on reinforcing core concepts, improving technique and developing confidence in answering the style of questions used in the examination.

Presents an accessible account of immunology. This title covers all the key concepts med students need with no gaps. It can be used either as an introduction to a topic, or as a revision aid. It depicts difficult concepts using cartoon-strip illustrations, which enable rapid understanding and assimilation of information.

Fully adapted for the UK, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, it explains the rationale for each drug class' therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, using the British National Formulary as its reference guide.

Provides information on the fundamentals of infection prevention and control and its management in a health care setting. This title outlines the role of the medical consultant, consultant nurse / specialist infection control nurse, hospital matron, ward link nurse, ward sister, staff nurse, trust management.

This Third Edition provides up-to-date coverage of psychopharmacology, including research demonstrating an increase in the number of disorders responsive to drug treatment. The scope of this book includes the use of drugs and other chemical agents as tools to investigate how the brain functions.

Suitable for pre-registration nursing students looking for an accessible guide to drug groups that goes beyond the essentials, this title is simple and accessible and examines the next logical set of drug groups that nurses need to know.

Greene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care.

A synthesis of the laboratory and clinical process of developing anticancer drugs covering the steps from the identification of cancer-specific targets to phase III clinical trials. It provides guidance on a variety of issues, including clinical trial design, preclinical screening, and the development and validation of bioanalytic methods.

Describing the characteristics and limitations of key algorithms, this book covers various aspects of chemoinformatics, including structure representation, molecular descriptors, similarity search, virtual screening, and structure-property model generation and validation.

There has been a shift in the focus of medical care from the hospital to the community. Medical students are required to understand the community aspects of medical practice and combine this with elements of sociology and psychology. This book looks at the context within which illness is experienced, health is sought and medicine is practised.

A concise textbook providing a clear description of drug absorption, distribution, action, metabolism and adverse effects, this title provides the information needed in a straightforward way to ensure informed, safe and cost-effective prescribing.

What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? This title explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of author's own serious illness.

What is illness? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be well-being within illness? Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own illness with reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher.

A comprehensive textbook of basic and clincal pharmacology for nurses and other allied health professionals.

The second edition of this classic text provides a unique resource for prescribing and medicines management.

An eagerly awaited new edition of the leading textbook on prescribing, covering the key topics taught on the non-medical prescribing programme. Featuring new chapters written by multi-professional authors, the book is a core text for students as well as new and experienced prescribers.

Gives a perfectly balanced overview of te field, describing the key infectious agents our bodies encounter and how our immune system responds to them. It also explains how diseases are spread and what measures we can take to control this spread, from vaccination to increasing public awareness.

Aims to challenge fundamentally the way health and social care professionals, supervisors and managers approach infection control and hygiene. This book reaches beyond a prescriptive approach to infection control behavior, examining the psychosocial forces that affect individual and group behaviors in practice.