In this second edition, Les Iversen presents an introductory account of what drugs are, how they work, and the advances made over the past 100 years in the field of pharmacology. Looking at pharmaceutical drugs and both legal and illegal recreational drugs, Iversen reflects on how twentieth-century drugs have changed our lives.

The Complexity Paradox proposes inventive, interdisciplinary approaches to maintaining health and managing and preventing disease. It examines life from the perspective of complexity, which acknowledges the limits of what we can know while helping us to understand life processes in new and extraordinary ways.

Pharmaceutical Medicine provides an accessible, user-friendly and up-to-date guide for those involved in clinical trials or marketing of new medicines in the pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmaceutics: The science of medicine design explores the different forms that medicines can take, and demonstrates how being able to select the best form - be it a tablet, injectable liquid, or an inhaled gas - requires an understanding of how chemicals behave in different physical states.

Part of the "Quality Chasm Series", this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It provides an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. It examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and effectiveness of error prevention strategies.

Offers a visual approach to understanding both the basic science and clinical applications of pharmacology. Designed to be compatible and used in conjunction with other pharmacology resources, this book includes a presentation of the pharmacodynamic relationship between drugs and the human body.