"Goodman & Gilman" is the Bible of pharmacology as it has been since the first edition written by Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman and published in 1941. It is the definitive textbook for all medical and pharmacy students and is a "must have" purchase for residents in internal medicine and pharmacologists. The book is a higher level than our Katzung and should be considered as the perfect accompaniment to the new Harrison. The objective of this textbook/ reference work is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date correlation of pharmacology with related medical sciences, a reinterpretation of the actions and uses of drug from the view point of the latest advances in medicine and pace emphasis on the application of pharmacodynamics to therapeutics. Throughout its history, Goodman & Gilman has become more than a textbook. It is a working template for effective and rational prescribing of drugs in daily practice. The careful balance of basic science and clinical application has guided students and practitioners to a better understanding of how and why drugs work. The information is presented in a style that reads with maximum clarity and purpose.
Transformed and expanded in the last edition, G&G10, under the superb direction of Drs. Hardman and Limbird, brings the field of pharmacology completely up-to-date in terms of molecular biology, new drugs, and clinical studies, which have contributed, to our understanding of therapeutics and their role in the management of disease. Comments from the late Louis Goodman, January 1st, 1996 What better way to start the new year than to write and tell you how much I appreciate your sending me the promotional material for the 9th edition of G&G and for the copy of the textbook that arrived thereafter. Everything I have had a chance to look at indicates that you and your associates have done a superb job and that the Vanderbilt University editors and their selection of editorial collaborators and authors have produced the most authoritative and elegant biomedical textbook ever seen by me in nearly seventy years in the field of academic medicine. Maxwell's mendacity may have destroyed Macmillan but it gave McGraw-Hill and your medical group the opportunity to elevate G&G to a level almost beyond expectation.
My thanks and greetings are extended to all of you and all the scientists who made the 9th edition possible. I am now well into my 90th year, so it is not surprising that nearly all contributors are unknown to me, and that most of them were not born when I started writing (by hand) the 1st edition in 1939. Whatever happens to medical textbooks in the coming century, G&G will celebrate its 100th year in 2041 and some of the younger members of the writing and production teams may still be alive.