About the Book
Pharmaceutical medicine represents an important interface between pharmaceutical and medical sciences. It has emerged from the need to closely involve the medical profession in the development and surveillance of modern therapeutic agents.
Having developed into a scientific discipline in its own right within a few decades, pharmaceutical medicine is concerned with all medical aspects of research, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring, and marketing of medicines in the interest of patients. Because of its multifaceted nature and ever-increasing importance, it has attracted the interest and attention of many health professionals, becoming one of the fastest growing specialties in the medical domain.
For a science encompassing such a wide field of different disciplines, a common language seems a basic necessity. However, it is the very same variety that makes this requirement so hard to meet.
The author of this dictionary, known to me for well over 30 years, has taken it upon himself to select the building blocks of this common language, to explain them and put them into order, and also to include a comprehensive list of abbreviations used in the various contexts (we all know from own experience what an obstacle an unfamiliar abbreviation can be to interdisciplinary communication).The author has concluded his task with an unerring sense of proportion,providing an excellent work of reference for all stakeholders in this permanently changing field.
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