Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
School of Pharmacy
Recommended Textbooks for Purchase 2011/12 – 1st Year (Junior Cycle)
The following is a list of books that you are recommended to purchase. This list of books is given to the
following bookshops. You may be able to avail of a discount on some books if you say you are studying
pharmacy at RCSI – check with the bookshop. You are, of course, free to buy from any bookshop.
Clarendon Medical
42 Clarendon Street, Dublin 2
Tel 679 3693
Hodges Figgis
56 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Tel 677 4754
Aulton’s Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines 3rd ed
Aulton M E
Churchill Livingstone
ISBN 0 443 10108 6
2007
Introduction to Pharmaceutical Calculations 3rd ed
Rees, J et al
Pharmaceutical Press
ISBN 987 0 85369 9606
2010
Human Physiology
Sherwood L
7th edition
Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-0-495-82629-3
2010
There will also be recommended textbooks that you may wish to purchase if you would like to. These will be
notified via the virtual learning environment (Moodle) or during lectures.
Please note that in the past we have recommended purchase of a BNF (British National Formulary).
The College has access to this text on-line (see RCSI Library website, e-books & pharmacology list).
We are no longer recommending purchase of the text version for that reason. Some of you may like
a paper copy to work from.
British National Formulary
RPSGB & BMA
Latest Edition
Recommended Textbooks for Purchase 2011/12 – 2nd Year (Intermediate Cycle A)
An introduction to Medicinal Chemistry 4th ed
Patrick G
Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0-19-923447-9
2009
Recommended Textbooks for Purchase 2011/12 – 3rd Year (Intermediate Cycle B)
Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach 3rd ed
Dewick P
Wiley
ISBN 978 0 470 74167 2
2009
Recommended Textbooks for Purchase 2011/12 –4th Year (Senior Cycle)
Community Pharmacy Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment 2nd ed
Paul Rutter
Churchill Livingstone
ISBN 978 0 7020 2995 0
2009
There will also be recommended textbooks that you may wish to purchase if you would like to. These will be
notified via the virtual learning environment (Moodle) or during lectures.