The objective of this volume is to give an overview of the present state of the art of pediatric clinical pharmacology including developmental physiology, pediatric-specific pathology, special tools and methods for development of drugs for children (assessment of efficacy, toxic…
A critique of the modern-day American health-care system looks at the potential consequences of overtreatment, revealing how modern medicine provides huge amounts of unnecessary care that is wasteful, expensive, and dangerous to the health of patients.
This overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images…
A collection of papers on new approaches to drugs and drug use. Contributors examine and discuss whether a process of normalisation of drugs and drug use is underway; the debate over prohibition versus legalisation; the theme at the root of drug control discourse - drugs and use…
This collection of essays looks at drugs from a sociological, medical and legal/ control perspective. It proposes that a shift has occured over the past decade which accepts that drugs are a part of today's culture. In addition Government policy is discussed, plus the issues of …
This overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images…
This collection of essays looks at drugs from a sociological, medical and legal/ control perspective. It proposes that a shift has occured over the past decade which accepts that drugs are a part of today's culture. In addition Government policy is discussed, plus the issues of …
"The application of knowledge of drug disposition, and skills in pharmacokinetics, are crucial to the development of new drugs and to a better understanding of how to achieve maximum benefit from existing ones. The book takes the reader from basic concepts to a point where those…
Explores substances, from the everyday to the exotic, that can affect human performance; discusses how they work, which are illegal, and how they can be detected; and examines the ethical issues associated.
David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-in…
David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-in…
They used to call it medicine -- Medicine and the marketeers -- Follow the evidence -- Doctoring the data -- Trussed in guidelines -- The mismeasurement of medicine -- The eclipse of care -- Pharmageddon.
