Description

Medical pharmacology is the study of impact of drugs and medicines on living organism, especially, human and how they work at cellular and molecular level. A medical pharmacologist studies the impact of drugs and medicines at cellular and molecular level. Medical Pharmacology provides broad coverage from principles of drug action to basis of their therapeutic use and skill of rational selection of drugs. Mechanisms of drug action are explained in a simplified manner. Essential pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic and dosage form information is included to enable prescribing with understanding and confidence. In medicine, this branch deals specifically with the treatment of disease and the art and science of healing. In pharmacology, therapeutics accordingly refers to the use of drugs and the method of their administration in the treatment of disease. The field of medical therapeutics may be characterized as having suffered major scientific evolution in the last decades. This book is designed to help the students of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy to understand pharmacology better. It is concise and complete. It can also serve as a rapid reference to postgraduate and general practitioners who are short of time to refer to bigger books.