This volume replaces the 6th edition of the successful Cooper and Gunn's Tutorial Pharmacy 6E, published in 1972. Now with a new editor, new contributors, a new title, and a redsigned content, Pharmaceutics: the Science of Dosage Form Design" is truly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute. With its companion volume, "Pharmaceutical Practice", undergraduate pharmacy students have both the textbooks they require for their course. Pharmaceutics is that part of pharmacy concerned with how drug chemicals are converted into medicines. The text desribes: the physics and chemistry of drug components, how drugs are released, distributed and absorbed in the body, drug delivery systems (eg tablets, powders), how micro-organisms are avoided or eliminated during manufacture, storage and use of medicine, the technology of filling and packaging medicines."