Basics of Pharmacotherapeutics

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This book ‘Basics of Pharmacotherapeutics’ is one of the most preferred text books by the students as well as teachers in pharmacy and medical sciences. This book is strictly according to the latest syllabus & pattern as per Pharmacy Council of India (P.C.I.) Education Regulation 2020 for Diploma course in pharmacy (Diploma in Pharmacy, Second Year).The main emphasis of this edition is to improve management for the treatment of human health and diseases. Pharmacotherapeutics is a branch of pharmacology, which deals with the study of therapeutic effects of drugs. Pharmacotherapeutics refers to the use of drugs for prevention, treatment and diagnosis of diseases. This necessitates a totally different outlook for the books on pharmacotherapeutics subject. There are many pharmacotherapeutics textbooks on the market. Some of them are purely basic while others are applied, and there are very few books which cover both these aspects together. For this reason, the students learning pharmacotherapeutics in pharmacy courses have to depend on multiple books to acquire a sound knowledge of the subject. This book, ‘Basics of Pharmacotherapeutics’’ is unique with a simultaneous and equal emphasis on basic and applied aspects of pharmacotherapeutics. This textbook primarily is an integration of medical and pure sciences, comprehensively written to meet the curriculum requirements of pharmacy courses. This book gives a new orientation to the subject of pharmacotherapeutics so that the students appreciate the great importance and significance of the application of pharmacotherapeutics to pharmacy courses. This textbook is a distillation of my knowledge and teaching experience in pharmaceutical sciences, acquired during the past 14 years. It contains predigested information on pharmacotherapeutics for good understanding, assimilation and reproducibility.