Informed Consumer's Pharmacy: The Essential Guide to Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drugs - Softcover

Brown, Ellen Hodgson; Walker, Lynne Paige

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881845868 ISBN 13: 9780881845860

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1990

Synopsis

Provides information on various types of drugs for such conditions as allergies, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes

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Reviews

Unlike most handbooks on drugs, this one is arranged by diseases and therapeutic classes, and outlines alternative therapies (including nondrug treatments) for a holistic approach. The result is a more coherent picture of the range of possible choices than is available in books organized alphabetically by drug name. Not everyone will be comfortable with the authors' holistic (and at times homeopathic) approach, or with their degree of skepticism about using drugs at all. Others will find it attractive for exactly these reasons. The text seems generally sound, if a bit sketchy; the references are a little sloppy at times. However, this is particularly good on drug-drug and drug-food interactions. It might be usefully supplemented by more technical drug handbooks, such as United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information for the Consumer (Consumer Reports, 1990) and USP DI, Drug Information for the Health Care Professional (USPC, 1990).
- Mary Chitty, Massachu setts Coll. of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences Lib., Boston
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881845868
• ISBN 13: 9780881845860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 445