Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Remember there will be a student book sale organised by the Pharmacy Society where you will be
able to obtain many of these books second hand.
Pharmaceutics
These are supplementary texts to your notes. They are not essential. The books are available in the
library, so have a look at them before purchasing. Earlier editions can be useful although not up to
date.
Aulton's Pharmaceutics : the design and manufacture of medicines (4th Edition) Aulton ME,
Taylor MGT 4th Edition, Churchill Livingstone, 2013.
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Pharmacology
All texts any post 2000 edition is fine, the most recent is given here. In terms of purchasing, it is
suggested that you familiarise yourselves with the library copies of Rang et al and Page et al during
semester 1 and then select one to purchase to help you with you pharmacology throughout the
course (both about 50 to buy new).
1. Pharmacology references
Pharmacology. Rang HP, Dale MM, Ritter JM, Flower RJ & Henderson G. Churchill Livingston,
7th edition (2012). Excellent general textbook. Chapters 1-4, 8-10, 12-14 provide detailed
coverage of the material in these lectures
Integrated Pharmacology. Page CP, Hoffman B, Curtis M & Walker M. Mosby, 3rd edition
(2006). Good on basic principles and relating to clinical problems.
Pharmacokinetics Made Easy. Birkett, DJ. McGraw-Hill Professional (2010 - paperback). Good
introduction to the principles of pharmacokinetics.
FASTtrack Pharmacology. Randall MD, Kendall DA & Alexander SPH. Pharmaceutical Press,
2nd edition (2012). Concise, but still relatively advanced in the treatment of quantitative and
molecular pharmacology. Drug targets summarised by therapeutic area.
Medical Pharmacology at a Glance. Neal MJ. Wiley-Blackwell, 7th edition (2012). The basics
presented in a punchy accessible manner useful for 1st year.
Both the above are also available as e-books from the UoN library online catalogue
3. Guides to the background physiology (suitable for non A level biologists)
Human Physiology. An integrated approach. Silverthorn DU. Pearson, 6th edition (2012).
Human Physiology: from cells to systems. Sherwood L. Cengage, 8th edition (2012).
Details of most recent editions given, but any post 2000 would probably be OK.
Chemistry
Paul M Dewick Essentials of organic chemistry (for students of pharmacy, medicinal chemistry and
biological chemistry). Wiley and Sons, ltd.
Elliott, William H. Biochemistry and molecular biology / William H. Elliott & Daphne C.
Elliott. 4th ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Molecular cell biology / Harvey Lodish ... [et al.]. 6th ed., International ed. New York ;
Houndmills, Basingstoke : W.H. Freeman and Co., 2008.
August 2013