Modern Pharmaceutics: Applications and Advances

Applications and Advances is principally a textbook and an advanced reference source of pharmaceutics, which focus on the core of the subject that is key to pharmacy. This textbook define pharmaceutics as encompassing the design, formulation, manufacture, assessment and determination of the quality of pharmaceutical products, and also the quality of effect in patients as the guiding principles.

It is of course difficult to separate an essentially applied subject into basic principles and applications, but authors have chosen subjects that follow naturally from those in basic principles and systems. In applications and advances authors have added chapters on biotechnology-based pharmaceutics, modern evaluation techniques for medicinal products, an overview chapter on pharmaceutical nanotechnology, as well as a chapter on aspects of pharmaceutical physics. This textbook also includes expert chapters on bioequivalence, controlled release systems, transdermal delivery, delivery to the lung, and the design and evaluation of ophthalmic products cover most of the routes of administration. Pediatric and geriatric pharmaceutics are of increasing relevance not least due to its concurrence with the concept of personalized medicine. The chapter on veterinary pharmaceutical dosage forms discusses fascinating challenges and solutions that do not always exist in human medicine. Target-oriented drug delivery itself presents a whole gamut of challenges to the ingenuity of those that design both drugs and delivery systems. A chapter is devoted to this important aspect of pharmacy.