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Brody's Human Pharmacology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 5e (Human Pharmacology (Brody))

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This is an excellent intro to Pharmacology for first-year medical students. It's a quick read for those who have taken their basic physics, chemistry and biology. It is very comprehensive from the basic mechanisms to the latest in gene therapy. It is not detailed enough to be a clinical reference on the wards, but that is not its purpose. If starting from scratch in Pharm, this would be a good adjunct to buy for first-year courses. I would recommend one of the giant Pharm texts to use as a more detailed reference.

I think the book is detailed on a level that some medical students might find necessary for their coursework. Its level of detail is intermediate - its somewhere between the massive amount of information contained in Goodman & Gilman's and the paucity of information in a review book such as High-Yield Pharmacology. Unfortunately, I think the level of detail is just slightly greater than what I needed during my medical school pharmacology course. I would be more likely to recommend a review book with slightly less detail such as Lippincott's Illustrated Review of Pharmacology. The approach taken by the book, however, is excellent - the order and presentation of the material is logical. Brody's Human Pharmacology is a comprehensive textbook that provides a great deal of information in a clear, thorough manner using numerous visual aids. This textbook covers anything one could expect to need for an introductory-intermediate pharmacology course. I found the presentation of the material to be very helpful, the explanations were clear and easy-to-understand in a not so easy-to-understand subject. The main limitation of the text lies in the amount of the information and the focus - which is more focused on basic science rather than clinically-focused information.