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intereact!Mary J Mycek, Richard A Harvey, Pamela C Champe
Edition: 2nd
Retail Price (not our price): $42.95
ISBN: 0781724139
ISBN-13: 9780781724135
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Product Description
Students and faculty alike have attested to the extraordinary success rate of the Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews -- the unparalleled review texts that clarify the essentials students need to know for the Boards through an easy-to-use outline format. Now, this review series offers this updated Millennium Edition of Lippincott's Illustrated Review: Pharmacology, Second Edition that includes an updated and comprehensive insert containing information on important new drugs introduced since 1996. The index has been fully revised to reflect the additional information found within the text. Designed and edited by top educators, the book helps the student tie together the visual and cognitive elements of learning for superior recognition and recall. Many updated figures and tables, carefully crafted to complement and amplify the text, are completely integrated with the text. Infolink cross-references between the Pharmacology and Biochemistry volumes of the series, enabling students to interrelate the two disciplines.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Solid Buy [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This book is a good book to use when starting to learn pharmaceutical nomenclature, mechanisms, and applications. This like the Lippincott's Biochemistry; it has plenty of diagrams and charts to help with the sometimes boring material/topic. However, this book easily teaches main medications to administer.2) Great Illustrations and a Helpful Pharmacology Overview [Rating: 4 out of 5]
LIR Pharm seems to be one of those books that everyone uses in medical school. It's really not short or quick to read at over 500 pages. But the fact that the authors keep all of the chapters at about 10-15 pages makes each one a fairly easy and digestible read. As others have already said, the greatest strength of the book by far is the excellent illustrations. I think the book is worth buying for the illustrations alone, especially since they are in color in the third edition. Also, I really loved the little cartoon people that they use for the figures that show the side effects. However, I don't think this book is detailed enough for a medical school pharmacology class. (Well, at least it wasn't for mine!) What I found to be really helpful was to read the chapter in this book first, and then read the corresponding chapter in Katzung or Goodman and Gilman. One thing about this book annoyed me a lot, and that was the huge number of typos that are present throughout. You would think that surely by the third edition, the editors could find them all and fix them. Most of the time, the typos were merely annoying, but there was one typo on page 237 that was outright wrong. It says that danaparoid is a mixture of the sulfates of heparin, dermatan, and chondroitin, but it should be HEPARAN, dermatan, and chondroitin. Danaparoid doesn't contain heparin!3) Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology [Rating: 4 out of 5]
An excellent quick review. This book is stream lined, easy to comprehend and fairly good with the number of drugs covered. It should be coupled with a more comprehensive text. I would have had a much more difficult time with my Pharmacology class without it. There is not enough chemistry, but then again it is a review. Overall - well worth adding to your library.4) Med. student [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I used this book to prepare for my Pharmacology exam in university,it's a great book, my pharmacology course based on this book so it was very helpful.Afcourse it's not enough,for a med.student who is looking for pharmokinetic's,that's why i bought 2 books in one time: Lippincott's "Pharmacology 3th" and Katzung "Clinical pharmacology".5) Good book, simple view of pharmacology [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Lots of diagrams, aids in understanding the pharmacological implications of physiological pathways, a must have for any med student