Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice 2nd Edition

• Facilitates an integrated and extensive coverage of the study of pharmaceutics due to the clear and engaging language used by the authors
• Includes chapter objectives and summaries to illustrate and reinforce key ideas
• Meets curricular guidelines for pharmaceutics and laboratory skills mandated by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
• Includes new practice questions, answers, and case studies for experiential learning

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