Katzung's Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Seventeenth Edition

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 illustrations
• 100 drug tables
• 50 USMLE-style questions
• A strong emphasis on drug groups and prototypes
• Case studies and chapter-ending summary tables
• Organization that reflects the syllabi of pharmacology courses
• Descriptions of important new drugs
• REVISED: 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 medications
• Continued expansion of the coverage of general concepts relating to newly discovered receptors, receptor mechanisms, and drug transporters