Aulton's Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines, 5e

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In brief, it is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms or medicines. Professor Aulton's Pharmaceutics has become established as the clearest, most comprehensive textbook on this subject. An understanding of pharmaceutics is therefore vital for all pharmacists and those pharmaceutical scientists who are involved with converting a drug or a potential drug into a medicine that can be delivered safely, effectively and conveniently to the patient.

I bought this book for my class in Pharmaceutical Technology and, with a strong background in Physical Chemistry, I found this book very good for the transition from Physical Chemistry to Physical Pharmacy. The book provides pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students with the latest information on all aspects of pharmaceutics. Since the fourth edition, Kevin has worked with Mike as a co-editor, helping to extend the scope and content of the text. Elsevier is a leading publisher of health science books and journals, helping to advance medicine by delivering superior education, reference information and decision support tools to doctors, nurses, health practitioners and students. The table of contents at the beginning of the each chapter is really good, the diagrams have been renewed.

It has been neatly tidied up and with sections and very good summary in the beginning it has covered almost everything (looking forward for more in the future! In brief, it is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms for medicines. One of the world’s best-known texts on pharmaceutics, Aulton's Pharmaceutics offers a complete course in one book for students in all years of undergraduate pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences degrees. The editorial and author team deliver a tour de force of accessibility, coverage and currency in this new edition of a world-class textbook. At the same time the editors have striven to maintain the accessibility of the text for students of pharmacy, preserving the balance between being a suitably pitched introductory text and a clear reflection of the state of the art.

An understanding of pharmaceutics is therefore vital to all pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists who are involved in converting a drug or a potential drug into a medicine that can be delivered safely, efficiently and conveniently to the patient. It encompasses design of drugs, their manufacture and the elimination of micro-organisms from the products.For the first three editions, Prof Mike Aulton (Emeritus Professor, De Montfort University and Fellow of the School of Pharmacy) was sole editor of this textbook, which is widely known as “ Aulton”. P>One of the world’s best-known texts on pharmaceutics, Aulton's Pharmaceutics offers a complete course in one book for students in all years of undergraduate pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences degrees.