| This book is designed to link the principles of physical pharmacy with
the practice of dosage form development. It fits into a conventional
US undergraduate pharmacy curriculum, where courses in these areas of
pharmaceutics are taught sequentially over a two-semester period. The
other traditional components of pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
are not covered in this text.
Specifically, this book is aimed at the demands and expectations of the
entry level PharmD programme (US undergraduate degree), with theory and
application interspersed. The book attempts to respond to changes in
the curriculum of the undergraduate pharmacy programme in recent years
and meet the guidelines of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education,
with an emphasis on problem-based learning and critical thinking.
The book consists of 17 chapters divided into four lecture modules, with
two modules accommodating each semester of the course. Each chapter is
divided into sections composed of basic science, a self-evaluation section,
practical problems and case studies. Information is presented in a way
that emphasises the relevance of the science to the practising pharmacist.
Given the scope of the text, it is not
surprising that the subject of physical pharmacy is not covered in as
much depth as
it is in books such as ‘Physiochemical principles of pharmacy’ (A.
T. Florence and D. Attwood) and ‘Physical pharmacy’ (A. Martin).
However, information is presented in a simple way and may be more appealing
to students.
Although specifically designed with the US course in mind, this publication
is a useful addition to the well-established pharmaceutics textbooks.
Anthony D’Emanuele (senior lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University
of Manchester)
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The
Pharmaceutical Journal