The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Twelfth Edition

The benchmark of excellence for practitioners and students wishing to understand the wide range of drugs available today — now in full color and enhanced by a narrated DVD

For nearly seventy years, Goodman & Gilman's careful balance of basic science and clinical application has guided thousands of practitioners and students to a clear understanding of the drugs most useful in preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease. No other resource better explains how and why drugs affect different body systems, the chemical properties of drugs, dosage information, drug interactions, and toxic effects.

A resource practitioners and students will rely on throughout their careers

Well organized, extensively indexed, rigorously peer-reviewed, and referenced to the most up-to-date literature in the field, Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12e is truly the definitive resource on therapeutics. More than a book, Goodman & Gilman's is a working template for the effective and rational prescribing of drugs.

An Exciting New FULL-COLOR edition!

Enriched by a beautiful full-color presentation and updated to reflect all the critical new developments in drug action and drug-disease interaction, the Twelfth Edition features more than 440 color illustrations depicting key principles and actions of specific pathways and therapeutic agents. The companion DVD features all the images and tables in the text along with narrated animations.

NEW contributors and NEW chapters

The Twelfth Edition includes the work of more than 120 contributors, fifty of which are new to this edition, many from outside the USA. You will also find new chapters on drug intervention, molecular mechanisms of drug action, drug toxicity and poisoning, principles of antimicrobial therapy, and pharmacotherapy of obstetrical and gynecological disorders.