Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Seventeenth Edition

By Todd W. Vanderah

The most comprehensive and authoritative pharmacology text--thoroughly revised and updated with new content

For decades, students have turned to Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology for its engaging approach, clear explanations, and clinical focus. Packed with full-color illustrations and practical case studies, the book bridges the gap between pharmacology concepts and real-world patient care.

Each chapter opens with a case study, covers drug groups and prototypes, and closes with summary tables and diagrams that encapsulate important information. Updated to reflect the latest research, this seventeenth edition includes the novel medications that were quickly designed to prevent and overcome COVID-19 with emphasis on the importance of vaccines and antiviral drugs in pharmacology and clinical medicine.

Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Seventeenth Edition features: 300+ full-color illustrations100 drug tables50 USMLE-style questionsA strong emphasis on drug groups and prototypesCase studies and chapter-ending summary tablesOrganization that reflects the syllabi of pharmacology coursesDescriptions of important new drugsREVISED: Major revisions of the chapters on pulmonary medications, angina and cardiac heart failure as well as antihypertensive drugs, vasoactive peptide medications, opioids and lipidemia drugs. NEW: Addition of RNA directed medicationsContinued expansion of the coverage of general concepts relating to newly discovered receptors, receptor mechanisms, and drug transporters

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1266248706
• ISBN13: 9781266248702
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Length: 1408 Pages