Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology 2nd ed., 3Vol Set

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Contains over 12,000 works cited!

Swarbrick & Boylan’s Second Edition is expanded and reorganized in a consistently logical format with over 200 immediately accessible entries.

Here are only a few of the new entries the Second Edition has to offer:

• advertising and promotion of prescription and over-the-counter drug products

• outsourcing of pharmaceuticals

• paperless documentation systems

• scale-up and post-approval changes

• mixing and segregation in tumbling blenders

• x-ray powder diffractometry

2004 Update Supplement


This supplement to the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology heralds transformations and advances in the design, development, manufacture, testing, and regulation of pharmaceuticals—supplying over 40 expert-authored articles as well as nearly 1900 new references to groundbreaking research studies.

Topics and subtopics newly represented include

• pilot plant design and operation

• quality assurance of pharmaceuticals

• processes and coating of oral solid dosage forms

• innovations in dry powder aerosol technologies

• tablet manufacture and testing

• pulsatile drug delivery systems

• nonprescription drugs and alternative medicines