Fox, a pharmacist with experience in pharmacy practice and academia, connects the science of pharmaceutics to the practice of pharmacy. She provides an overview of pharmaceutics, covering dosage form design; intermolecular forces and the physical and pharmaceutical properties of drugs; dispersed systems; the properties of solutions and manipulation of solubility; chemical stability; drug travel from dosage form to receptor; bioavailability, bioequivalence, and the Biopharmaceutical Classification System; parenteral drug delivery; delivery of biopharmaceuticals and the use of novel carrier systems; oral delivery of immediate release dosage forms and modified release solid dosage forms; and drug delivery by various routes of administration. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)