Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine (4th edition)

This is a new edition of this book; the last edition came out in 2013 and was also covered in these columns (RR 2014/145), and hence, this shorter review. As the title says it is about pharmaceutical medicine, that is, the science of medical pharmacy. It is not a book about medicines. The need for a new edition is partly driven by the rapidly increasing understanding of the working of the genome. [I have added a reference (Carey, 2015) to a popular account of some of this field that I recently read]. Another driver is changes in...