Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine

This new edition, the seventeenth, has been thoroughly revised and thoughtfully remodelled. In doing so the author has adopted a novel method to present the theoretical and practical subject matters, stipulated in ER 91 of PCI, separately to help the teachers to treat the whole course, in theory and practical classes, in two independent individual parts, and in such a way that topics follow each other conveniently in an easy-to-grasp mode. This new pedagogic approach of the author in this textbook of pharmacognosy for the students of Diploma Course deals with the theoretical course in a well-defined separate part (Section 1) for lectures, while the practical course is given in a meticulously organized separate part (Section 2), and is deemed to be conducted directly in the practical classes in the laboratory. This new edition thus offers a ?Two-in-One? book of Pharmacognosy. Prof. J.S. Qadry is a well-known researcher, author and scholar in the field of pharmaceutical research and education and enjoys the distinction of being the first author to write a book on pharmacy in India, way back in 1969, He has been associated with a number of universities and institutions in different capacities as teacher, researcher and specialist in India and abroad, where he pioneered the subject as head of the department, as Principal, as Dean, as Director, as Vice-Chancellor, as Special Adviser and what not. He also acted as President of Pharmacy Council of India besides holding other prestigious positions and offices in the country. As a successful and popular author of as many as eight books to date on pharmacy subjects, he received wide acclaim as educator, and more than fulfilled, through his writings and personal interaction, the aspirations and expectations of scholars, teachers and students thirsting for authentic and up-to-date knowledge.

This Manual is based on the practical approach to pharmaceutical analysis following both instrumental as well as manual presentations, and is designed keeping in view the syllabi of various universities in India and other countries. Viewing all aspects, the book starts with spectrophotometric analysis and covers various aspects of flame photometry, potentiometric titrations, fluorimetry, polarimetry, conductometric titration, refractometry, nepheloturbidimetry and chromatography - thin layer chromatography, paper chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography and high performance thin layer chromatography. Special emphasis has been laid on the interpretations of infrared spectras and mass spectras, Karl Fischer titration and Kjeldahls method.

The book is comprised of various chapters on topics of research pharmaceutical industry and academic relevance. The present book on applied pharmaceutical biotech specifically has been a result of continual laborious quest to bring out in true sense a comprehensive introduction on a subject along with the applications and future perspectives so that it becomes a rewarding read to the students who are undertaking undergraduate or postgraduate degree programme in biochemistry bioscience biotechnology or related disciplines. The book contains 16 chapters with 275 figures/schemes and 140 tables.