Fourth Edition
edited by Gilbert S. Banker
and Christopher T. Rhodes

Assesses the effect of health maintenance organizations and managed care strategies on pharmaceutical therapy!

Modern Pharmaceutics 4th Edition contains new chapters detailing:

• techniques to evaluate the safety, toxicity, and efficacy of natural, herbal, and botanical compounds
• the growing prevalence of bioequivalency testing and generic drug products in North America and Western Europe
• the organization and utilization of emerging drug information and literature
• and much more!

This Fourth Edition of Modern Pharmaceutics is an authoritative reference for industrial, research, and clinical pharmaceutical scientists, pharmacists, and pharmacologists; biostatisticians; toxicologists; analytical chemists; quality control, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance managers; and an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. Drug Products: Their Role in the Treatment of Disease, Their Quality, and Their Status and Future as Drug-Delivery Systems
2. Principles of Drug Absorption
3. Pharmacokinetics
4. Factors Influencing Drug Absorption and Drug Availability
5. The Effect of Route of Administration and Distribution on Drug Action
6. Chemical Kinetics and Drug Stability
7. Preformulation
8. Cutaneous and Transdermal Delivery—Processes and Systems of Delivery
9. Disperse Systems
10. Tablet Dosage Forms
11. Hard and Soft Shell Capsules
12. Parenteral Products
13. Design and Evaluation of Ophthalmic Pharmaceutical Products
14. Delivery of Drugs by the Pulmonary Route
15. Sustained- and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery Systems
16. Target-Oriented Drug-Delivery Systems
17. Packaging of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
18. Optimization Techniques in Pharmaceutical Formulation and Processing
19. Food and Drug Laws that Affect Drug Product Design, Manufacture, and Distribution
20. European Aspects of the Regulation of Drug Products with Particular Reference to Development Pharmaceutics
21. Pediatric and Geriatric Aspects of Pharmaceutics
22. Biotechnology-Based Pharmaceuticals
23. The Pharmacist and Veterinary Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
24. Dietary Supplements
25. Bioequivalency
26. Drug Information
27. Managed Care and Pharmacotherapy Management
28. A View to the Future

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