Clarke's Analytical Forensic Toxicology
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Author(s): S. Jickells and A. Negrusz (Eds)
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
ISBN: 9780853697053
Format: softback
648pp
Price: £39.95
Review Date: 01 September 2008
Review: This textbook provides a good introduction for post-graduate students who hope to pursue a career in toxicology. It begins with the main elements of forensic toxicology and goes on to discuss: pharmacoketics and metabolism; drugs of abuse; other substances encountered in clinical and forensic toxicology; workplace drug testing; alternative specimens; clinical toxicology, therapeutic drug monitoring, in utero exposure to drugs of abuse; drug abuse in sport; drug-facilitated sexual assault; alcohol, drugs and driving; forensic chemistry and solid dosage form identification; colour tests and thin-layer chromatography; immunoassays; ultraviolet, visible and fluorescence spectrophotometry; infrared spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; gas chromatography; high-performance liquid chromatography; capillary electrophoresis; mass spectrometry; emerging techniques; and quality control and assessment.