Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 7th Edition

UNIT 1
1 Drugs and medicines
2 Clinical, ethical and legal foundations of pharmacotherapy

UNIT 2
3 Molecular drug targets and pharmacodynamics
4 Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion
5 Pharmacokinetics and dosing regimens
6 Precision medicine
7 Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions

UNIT 3
8 Drugs affecting cholinergic transmission
9 Drugs affecting noradrenergic transmission

UNIT 4
10 Drugs affecting cardiac function
11 Drugs affecting vascular smooth muscle
12 Lipid-lowering drugs
13 Drugs affecting thrombosis and haemostasis
14 Drugs affecting the haemopoietic system

UNIT 5
15 Drugs used in respiratory disorders

UNIT 6
16 Drugs affecting the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract

UNIT 7
17 Drugs affecting the kidney and bladder

UNIT 8
18 Central nervous system overview and anaesthetics
19 Analgesics
20 Antianxiety, sedative and hypnotic drugs
21 Antiepileptic drugs
22 Psychotropic agents
23 Central nervous system stimulants
24 Drugs for neurodegenerative disorders and headache
25 Drug dependence and social pharmacology

UNIT 9
26 The neuroendocrine system and pituitary gland
27 The thyroid gland, the parathyroid glands and bone disorders
28 The endocrine pancreas and diabetes mellitus
29 The adrenal cortex and corticosteroids

UNIT 10
30 Drugs affecting the female reproductive system
31 Drugs affecting the male reproductive system

UNIT 11
32 Principles of cancer therapy
33 Antineoplastic drugs

UNIT 12
34 Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating drugs

UNIT 13
35 Overview of antimicrobial chemotherapy and antibiotic resistance
36 Antibacterial drugs
37 Antifungal and antiviral drugs
38 Antiprotozoal, antimycobacterial and anthelmintic drugs

UNIT 14
39 Drugs affecting the skin
40 Drugs affecting the eye and ear
41 Drugs in aged care
42 Pharmacotherapy of obesity
43 Vaccinations
44 Complementary medicines

Andrew Rowland, PhD, BSc (Hons), Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical
Pharmacology, College of Medicine
and Public Health, Flinders University,
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Shaunagh Darroch, BSc, MPharm,GradCertAcaPrac, Pharmacologist, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia, Mary Bushell, BPharm (Hons), GCLTHE, PhD and Voula Tsoutsikos, PhD, MEd (HighEd), BAppSc (Hons), Professor and Teaching Program Director (Clinical), Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia