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

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All aspects of pharmaceutics are covered in a clear and readily accessible way and extensively illustrated throughout, providing an essential companion to the entire pharmaceutics curriculum from day one until the end of the course. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The editorial and author team deliver a tour de force of accessibility, coverage and currency in this new edition of a world-class textbook. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

The book provides pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students with the latest information on all aspects of pharmaceutics. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It encompasses design of drugs, their manufacture and the elimination of micro-organisms from the products.The content has been extensively revised and updated, and many new subjects introduced, because pharmaceutics continually changes, particularly in the ways that drug products are designed, manufactured and delivered to patients. Contributors to this new edition include many current and former School of Pharmacy people including: Susan Barker, Abdul Basit, Steve Brocchini, Graham Buckton, Soraya Dhillon, Hala Fadda, Christina Freire, Simon Gaisford, Francesca Gavins, Neil Hartman, Majella Lane, Christine Madla, Emma McConnell, Sudax Murdan, Mine Orlu, Somavarapu Satyanarayana, Andreas Schatzlein, Khalid Sheikh, Catherine Tuleu, Ijeoma Uchegbu and Gareth Williams. G. Taylor, BPharm PhD FRPharmS, Professor of Clinical Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK and Michael E.

The table of contents at the beginning of the each chapter is really good, the diagrams have been renewed. In brief, it is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms for medicines.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! 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.

It it a bit long-winded and sometimes difficult to understand, but maybe it is because i dislike pharmaceutics! 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. 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. The language of the book has also changed and the explanations were further simplified so that we actually understand the concept even better!Kevin Taylor, Professor of Clinical Pharmaceutics, has co-edited the recently published new edition of Aulton’s Pharmaceutics, the preeminent pharmaceutics textbook for pharmacy students. In brief, it is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms or medicines.

Since the fourth edition, Kevin has worked with Mike as a co-editor, helping to extend the scope and content of the text.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. With titles available across a variety of media, we are able to supply the information you need in the most convenient format.