Goodman and Gilman’s the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 14th Edition

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Goodman and Gilman’s the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 14th Edition by Laurence Brunton & Bjorn Knollmann | eBook PDF | ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1264258079

This is the 14th edition of book that began as a collaboration between
two friends and professors at Yale, Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman.
Over the years, “G&G” has been acclaimed as the “blue bible” of pharmacology.
Surely much of that acclaim reflects the book’s purpose, delineated
by the original authors and steadily adhered to over 81 years: to
correlate pharmacology with related medical sciences, to reinterpret the
actions and uses of drugs in light of advances in medicine and the basic
biomedical sciences, to emphasize the application of pharmacodynamics
to therapeutics, and to create a book that would be useful to students of
pharmacology and to healthcare practitioners.
Following these principles is demanding: the sheer volume and unremitting
growth of knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and their
clinical applications continue to amaze, challenging editors and contributors
who are trying to produce a one-volume work, and surely challenging
students. To create a book that reflects our times, we have updated all
chapters and have added five new chapters: drug response and the gastrointestinal
biome, pharmacovigilance, the blood-brain barrier (it is not
simply a lipid sheath), cannabinoids, and immunotherapies for cancer,
plus a novel appendix on drug-drug interactions. Advances in immunomodulation
are presented in most sections. In addition, we have continued
to reach out to younger contributors who are on the forefront of
pharmacological investigation and clinical practice. As a result, we have,
in this edition, 56 new contributors, drawn from diverse backgrounds,
who will ensure the book’s vigor into the future.