Pharmacy Books

About what I would expect from one of the founders of Bastyr Naturopathy College (Bill Mitchell). This book is chock full of erroneous hype, but very little substance. The herb monographs lack any practical information and are based on heresay, at best. While the cover looks quite impressive, one peek inside reveals a rather amaturish job. Anybody who pays almost seventy dollars for this is sure to be dissapointed!

Much better choices on the subject are "Herbal Medicine" by Weiss and Fintelmann or Schulz, et al. "Rational Phytotherapy"

John Bastyr, ND, learned first learned herbalism from his mother, who followed the Kneipp system of herbalism and nature cure. He was eventually licensed as a physician, began practicing medicine in the 1930s, and continued in practice for almost 60 years. For 35 years, he lectured on medical herbalism among other topics to physicians-in training, first at National College of Naturopathic Medicine, and later at Bastyr University, which was named after him. (Note: He had no role in the founding or administration of Bastyr University). By the 1970s, he was possibly the most clinically experienced medical herbalist in North America. His student from that time, William Mitchell, N.D., after practicing twenty-five years himself, confirming and expanding on Bastyr's observations and experience, has offered this textbook of materia medica. Mitchell also draws on the clinical observations of naturopathic colleagues in his own generation. The book reflects without a doubt more accumulated clinical experience than any similar book in print in North America today. Bastyr's methods of herbalism reflect roots in the Eclectic medical tradition, but they are clearly expanded and developed through his decades of experience and teaching. While his observations make up the foundation of the book, most of the work is actually Mitchell's, and Bastyr's teachings are "spun" somewhat with the addition of some constituent-science. The title is thus misleading, but for the advanced student or professional practitioners, Bastyr's clinical pearls, proven and passed on by Mitchell, are treasures.

I am a budding medical transcriptionist, learning the trade. One of the ways I learn is to have good references on hand to look up medical terms and drugs. This book has helped me out perhaps 50% of the time. It simply does not have all the drugs I need. If you are looking for a quick consumer reference, this may be just the thing, but on the other hand, it does not have everything. Look elsewhere for complete information.

This is a good book for a fast reference to drug information. It's a compact little book that gives you the generic and trade name of the drug, drug action, contraindications, drug interactions and other helpful information about the drug you may want to search for. It also has a handy medical abbreviations list for a quick reference of medical abbreviations. For the price, it is a good deal. Don't regreat getting this little drug guide. If you can't afford PDR or Drug Facts and Comparisons this one can help a lot.

"Overall, this book provides a valuable source of information for several specific areas of proteomics and thus it will be of interest to those seeking to learn of the questions being addressed in the field and the methods employed to do so."
John R. Yates, III
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California 92037

This relatively short book gives a fairly terse treatment to the subject of proteomics with very little detail on the technologies that have made this field of pursuit possible. There is far more of a focus, from the introduction to later chapters, on protein-protein interactions, when this is to-date mostly beyond conventional proteomics strategies. The last chapter focuses on protein arrays and chips.
The figures for the book are of a poor standard, and the entire textbook seems to have been drawn from a course given by the author.
In short not a very strong book on proteomics, and one that falls far short of others on the market. I wouldn't recommend it to students of the subject, except where a cursory examination of the subject was needed.

This book presented a very concise and professional review of the different types of psychotropic medications and the disorders best treated by them. This book was required for my Doctoral Psychopharmacology class and was well received by the class.

In it's second edition, the book divides into two essential overviews that are very "user friendly". The first part profiles a general clinical psychopharmacology which provides a well written and comprehensible neuroanatomy review, which is basic to the understanding of how psychotropic drugs work. The mental disorders are discussed which these drugs are used to treat, along with ECT, abuse dynamics and interventions.

The second section provides a complete drug profile for more than 100 psychotropics. Included in each profile are facts that exceed most common nursing medication books. The drug index is all encompassing and has index resource to furthur promote a handy reference source.

The only reason I purchased these cards were that they are required for one of my classes and I have quizzes on about 25 of them a week. I think they are terrible tough. It seems like a different person wrote each card and they are not cohesive at all.

For the pharmacy student that wants to get ahead these cards are for you. They display cursory information about the most common drugs prescribed and while not a replacement for th Drug Information Handbook for thorough information, they provide detail enough for quick study.
Including information like the structure, pictures of product, and the drug class is helpful as well. Overall a good tool for study.

this seller is a lier because a claim was made that the book looks like new but it is the oldest book i've ever bought.

Wilson and Gisvold's textbook of Organic medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry is an excellent textbook for medicinal chemistry, pharmacetical chemistry and pharmacy degree students. The book is scientifically well written and enjouyable to read. he graphic images of molecules integrate well with the written aspects of book.

This book has two strains. It lists female pioneers in pharmacy and it details the decades-old question "Should women be in pharmacy and under what capacity?" It not only asks were women allowed to become pharmacists, it goes on to question whether they were allowed to join pharmacy fraternities and pharmacy school faculties.

I am so glad that someone compiled this information. However, I am dismayed how women are treated as a monolithic group, devoid of race and class considerations. Ten pages into the text, the author mentions that at least one woman was in the pharmacy school at Howard University, a historically Black college. Still, she never asks or answers whether this was the only place that Black women could get pharmacy training, as other universities discriminated against Blacks until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. She does include at least two photos of Black female pharmacists, but never once considers that they may have faced barriers their white counterparts did not. She sometimes mentions that the University of Puerto Rico had a pharmacy schools but never writes on the specific concerns of Latina pharmacists. She stated that many women entered pharmacy as assistants to their pharmacist husbands. I got the sense from the jump that this was a class-privileged job and wondered if low-income women, of any race, had any entree into the profession.

I applaud the author's hard work in finding out all this information. Still, the book got dull rather quickly. Further, though people have asked if women should enter this field for decades, the consensus over the decades is that the answer is yes. Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was the top of her law class, yet no firm wanted to hire her for anything besides secretary. Women in the military and female engineers have written much about the barriers they face. This book doesn't make the struggle of female pharmacists sound that tremendous. Since the book's publication, women have become the majority of pharmacists and the acknowledgment of that triumph is not foreseen within this text.

This would not be a good recruitment tool for women considering pharmacy. However, I think it would please current female pharmacists to know about the women who paved the road for them.

I picked up this book with great hope, but it has fallen short to my expectation. The author has presented the idea of PK modelling in a very lucid way and for that the effort of the author is commendable. But this book is really very basic, most of the times it just introduces with the basic concept but very unwillful to go beyond of that. Sometimes it reiterates the same thing again and again, as a result number of pages has been increased withoug much increment of information in the book. This book mostly discusses with the IV method of drug administration. It provides the idea of two compartment pk model for Oral administration of drug only in a single para and does not provide any mathematical calculation. In nutshell, the book is very basic and does not help anybody who wants to be self-sufficient in PK data analysis.

Provides a step-by-step guide to simple methods for verifying the identity of commonly-used pharmaceutical substances and dosage forms. The basic tests described can also be used to detect mislabeled, substandard products when the labeling or physical attributes give rise to doubt.

This book gives many examples of where Risk-Benefit analysis was utilized in the assessment of commonplace therapies up to and including more modern lipid complexes, etc. In this regard, the book is quite useful although abstracting from these specific examples into some generalizable approach is difficult at best. In addition, the section specifically devoted to methods is limited and does not provide a comprehensive overview which would have been greatly appreciated. Not recommended unless the therapies included in this work are relevant to your area of practice/research.