Physical Pharmacy ANNOTATION
This book contains black-and-white illustrations.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Reviewer: Ronald L. Koch, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)Description: This book covers the physical chemical principles of various pharmaceutical drug dosage forms. Purpose: The purpose of this book is to help students, teachers, researchers, and manufacturing pharmacists use mathematics, chemistry, and physics in their work and study. Audience: Although the stated audience appears to include students of pharmacy, the book will not be as useful to them as to graduate students. The book is more appropriate for use in graduate instruction in pharmaceutics. It will also be of value to researchers and manufacturing pharmacists. Features: The book contains a large number of illustrations that are of good quality. They are well described and help to clarify difficult concepts. The book has some additional chapters that update this edition in comparison to the last. References cited are generally original publications. In this edition, there are more problems at the end of the chapters, which is a plus, but they relate more to manufacturing problem-solving instead of problems encountered in the practice of pharmacy. They finallymoved the chapter on calculus to the appendix. Graduate students and professional pharmacy students usually need calculus before to applying for admission to these programs. Therefore, the chapter seems remedial at best. Assessment: The book is an improvement over the last edition, but it does not hit the target audience of the professional pharmacy student. This is because of the large number of changes in the profession of pharmacy. For this book to be of value to students of pharmacy, the principles that are covered need to be related to dosage formulations and situations they may encounter in practice. There are many important colloidal formulations, suspensions, and emulsions that could have been use to demonstrate these principles, but they were not mentioned. Some of the problems do not seem applicable, e.g., the electrolyte calculations in the nonelectrolyte chapter.
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The fourth edition of this text is concerned, as were earlier editions, with the use of physical chemical principles as applied to the various branches of pharmacy. Its purpose is to help students, teachers, researchers, and manufacturing pharmacists use the elements of mathematics, chemistry, and physics in their work and study. The new edition has been updated and revised to reflect a decade of current advances, concepts, methods, instrumentation, and new dosage forms and delivery systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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