Main description:

Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice, Second Edition is a valuable textbook covering the role and application of pharmaceutics within pharmacy practice. This updated resource is geared toward meeting and incorporating the current curricular guidelines on pharmaceutics and laboratory skills mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education. It includes a number of student-friendly features, including chapter objectives and summaries, practical examples, case studies, numerous images and key-concept text boxes. Two new chapters are included, as well as a new end of chapter section covering "critical reflections and practice applications".

Divided into three sections - Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics; Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics; and Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics - this new edition covers all aspects of pharmaceutics and providing a single and compelling source for students.

Contents:

Part 1: Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics 1. Introduction: Terminology, basic mathematical skills and calculations 2. Physical states, thermodynamic principles in pharmaceutics 3. Physical properties, their determination and importance in pharmaceutics 4. Equilibrium processes in Pharmaceutics 5. Kinetic processes and Pharmaceutics 6. Complexation and Protein Binding

Part 2: Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics 7. Other processes 8. Drug, Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems 9. Solid Dosage forms 10. Liquid Dosage form 11. Gaseous dosage forms 12. Semi-solid dosage forms 13. Special dosage forms 14. Emerging therapeutics and their delivery challenges

Part 3: Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics 15. Routes of drug administration 16. Membrane transport and Diffusion 17. Factors affecting drug absorption and disposition in a system 18. Bioavailability and Bioequivalence