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Aulton's Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines
Pharmaceutics is one of the most diverse subject areas in all of pharmaceutical science. In brief, it is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms for medicines. An understanding of pharmaceutics is therefore vital to all pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists who are involved in converting a drug or a potential drug into a medicine that can be delivered safely, efficiently and conveniently to the patient.
Professor Aulton's Pharmaceutics has become established as the clearest, most comprehensive textbook on this subject. The book provides pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students with the latest information on all aspects of pharmaceutics.
Professor Aulton's Pharmaceutics has become established as the clearest, most comprehensive textbook on this subject. The book provides pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students with the latest information on all aspects of pharmaceutics.
728 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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October 17, 2019
It was easy to read and really useful during the Galenic Pharmacy course.
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January 30, 2013
I taught second year pharmacy students a physical chemistry module from the first twelve chapters of this book and found it a frustrating experience.
There were far too many equations for my poor students to have a hope of remembering, many of them poorly contextualised and assuming a background in the physical sciences that second year pharmacy students in this country (Australia) do not have.
Well, perhaps that is okay; perhaps we should set the bar high, considering the vast resources available at the fingertips of modern students. But unfortunately a great number of the equations are wrong. Within a few chapters, statements are rendered baffling by writing 'r' instead of 'rho', 't' instead of 'T', 'x' where a multiplication sign is meant, and by careless sign reversals. Expression 4.33 is upside down. Figure 5.7 is a plot of something other than what the caption says it is. In the size reduction chapter 1 micrometre is quoted as the threshold between Kick-type and Rittinger-type milling, rather than 1 millimetre. Etc. These are all small errors, but I had to correct them with weary regularity and I pity a student trying to master the content without assistance.
For a third edition, Aulton's Pharmaceutics is disappointing. The errors in content make it an unreliable reference monograph, while the lack of any problems for students to solve or worked examples make it of limited utility as a textbook.
There were far too many equations for my poor students to have a hope of remembering, many of them poorly contextualised and assuming a background in the physical sciences that second year pharmacy students in this country (Australia) do not have.
Well, perhaps that is okay; perhaps we should set the bar high, considering the vast resources available at the fingertips of modern students. But unfortunately a great number of the equations are wrong. Within a few chapters, statements are rendered baffling by writing 'r' instead of 'rho', 't' instead of 'T', 'x' where a multiplication sign is meant, and by careless sign reversals. Expression 4.33 is upside down. Figure 5.7 is a plot of something other than what the caption says it is. In the size reduction chapter 1 micrometre is quoted as the threshold between Kick-type and Rittinger-type milling, rather than 1 millimetre. Etc. These are all small errors, but I had to correct them with weary regularity and I pity a student trying to master the content without assistance.
For a third edition, Aulton's Pharmaceutics is disappointing. The errors in content make it an unreliable reference monograph, while the lack of any problems for students to solve or worked examples make it of limited utility as a textbook.
March 16, 2014
A must-have for all pharmacy students!
I'm in the second year of my degree and this book has been sooooo useful. A lot of what is in the syllabus is covered in this book. It is easy to read and the explanations are very good.
Many the authors of this book are my lecturers at uni so whenever I miss a lecture or do not understand something I know I can rely on this book to keep on top of things :)
I'm in the second year of my degree and this book has been sooooo useful. A lot of what is in the syllabus is covered in this book. It is easy to read and the explanations are very good.
Many the authors of this book are my lecturers at uni so whenever I miss a lecture or do not understand something I know I can rely on this book to keep on top of things :)
January 6, 2013
By far the best and most comprehensive pharmaceutics book out there.
April 3, 2016
a very good book to start with, it even gives some recent advances in the pharmaceutical field,as masters student i got a good knowledge from it (with addition to journals and articles).
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