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Volume 337:433-434 August 7, 1997 Number 6
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Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacologic Basis of Therapeutics, Ninth Edition
The Merck Index, 12th Edition

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CD-ROM, Edited by Joel G. Hardmann and Lee E. Limbird, with Perry B. Molinoff, Raymond W. Ruddon, and Alfred Goodman Gilman. System needed: Multimedia IBM PC or compatible computer with 4 MB RAM and at least 6 MB hard-disk space. (Also available for Macintosh System 7.0 or higher,with 4 MB RAM and at least 4 MB free hard-disk space.) New York, McGraw-Hill, 1997. $95. ISBN 0-07-864186-1.
(Vol. 1.) CD-ROM, with user's guide, 55 pp. System needed: Multimedia IBM PC or compatible computer with 8 MB RAM and 12 MB hard-disk space. New York, Chapman & Hall, 1997. $250. ISBN 0-412-75650-1.

Information about much routine clinically oriented pharmacology can be found in specialty textbooks, but Goodman and Gilman's remains a cornerstone of clinical pharmacology whenever a thorough analysis is sought. This CD contains not only the full text but also every chart, table, diagram, and appendix in the printed version. The same CD can be used interchangeably with both IBM PC and Macintosh computers.

The CD has a useful advantage over the book: it includes abstracts covering the seven-year period from 1990 through 1996 from 51 leading clinical and pharmacologic journals cited in the bibliography of the book. This extended data . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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