摘要
The preface to the 2011 edition of Goodman and Gilman’s the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics(12th ed)penned by top pharmacologist professor Laurence L.Brunton,the chief editor,reads:
The preface to the 2011 edition of Goodman and Gilman＇s the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics （12th ed） penned by top pharmacologist professor Laurence L. Brunton, the chief editor, reads：
The process of editing brings into view many remarkable facts, theories, and realizations. Three stand out： the invention of new classes of drugs has slowed to a trickle; therapeutics has barely begun to capitalize on the information from the human genome project; and, the development of resistance to antimicrobial agents, mainly through their overuse in medicine and agriculture, threatens to return us to the pre-antibiotic era.
