ABSTRACT

Completely revised and updated, this is the seventh edition of Levine's classic pharmacology textbook. Known for it's thorough coverage and intelligent organization, the book covers the basic principles of pharmacological interactions on the human body in a way that is useful for both undergraduate and graduate students. Beginning with historical perspectives, nomenclature and definitions, the topics broaden to include sites and mechanisms of drug actions and travel to sites of action, as well as termination and elimination. The book also includes drug response and time-response relationships, response variability, drug toxicity, drug abuse, drug dependence, and more.

chapter 1|17 pages

The Heritage of Pharmacology

chapter 2|9 pages

The Scope of Pharmacology

chapter 3|26 pages

How Drugs Act on the Living Organism

chapter 4|24 pages

How Drugs Reach Their Site of Action

chapter 5|34 pages

How Drugs Reach Their Site of Action

chapter 6|17 pages

How Drugs Reach Their Site of Action

chapter 7|25 pages

How the Actions of Drugs are Terminated

chapter 8|33 pages

How the Actions of Drugs are Terminated

chapter 13|40 pages

Drug Toxicity

chapter 14|23 pages

How Drugs Alter Physiologic Function

chapter 15|35 pages

The Pharmacologic Aspects of Drug Abuse

chapter 16|27 pages

The Development and Evaluation of New Drugs