Description:

The most comprehensive and authoritative pharmacology text―updated with new content and USMLE-style questions

Presented in full-color and packed with hundreds of illustrations, Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology is the wide-ranging, engaging guide students have counted on for decades. To be as clinically relevant as possible, the book includes sections that specifically address the clinical choice and use of drugs in patients and the monitoring of their effects, along with case studies that introduce clinical problems.

Each chapter opens with a case study, covers drug groups and prototypes, and closes with summary tables and diagrams that encapsulate important information. Updated to reflect the latest research, this sixteenth edition features a new chapter on cannabinoids, USMLE-style questions, new drug tables, and more.

Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Sixteenth Edition features:

• 330 full-color illustrations
• 100 drug tables
• 50 USMLE-style questions
• Chapter on cannabinoids
• A strong emphasis on drug groups and prototypes
• Case studies and chapter-ending summary tables
• Organization that reflects the syllabi of pharmacology courses
• Descriptions of important new drugs

Table of Contents

SECTION I: BASIC PRINCIPLES

SECTION II: AUTONOMIC DRUGS

SECTION III: CARDIOVASCULAR-RENAL DRUGS

SECTION IV: DRUGS WITH IMPORTANT ACTIONS ON SMOOTH MUSCLE

SECTION V: DRUGS THAT ACT IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

SECTION VI: DRUGS USED TO TREAT DISEASES OF THE BLOOD, INFLAMMATION, & GOUT

SECTION VII: ENDOCRINE DRUGS

SECTION VIII: CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUGS

SECTION IX: TOXICOLOGY

SECTION X: SPECIAL TOPICS