本书是关于介绍“药学英语”的教学用书，共选课文30课和阅读材料15课，其体例为：①课文；②词汇注释；③课文注释；④习题。每一学科为一单元，其中包括该学科最常用的专业词汇，在专业和语言方面有一定代表性的三篇文章，每篇文章后分别注解单词和词组并附有课文语法注解，然后再选三篇专业文章，供学生自行阅读。

Unit One

 Text A Vitamins

 Text B Foods That Fight Cancer

 Supplementary Reading Fat-Soluble Vitamins

Unit Two

 Text A Chemistry and Matter

 Text B Models Approach of Chemistry

 Supplementary Reading Combinatorial Chemistry and New D17ugs

Unit Three

 Text A Anesthetics

 Text B Drugs and Mind (1)

 Supplementary Reading Drugs and Mind(2)

Unit Four

 Text A How Does the Human Body Fight Disease?

 Text B Immunotoxicity of Pharmaceuticals

 Supplementary Reading The Placebo Effect

Unit Five

 Text A Green Pharmacy--Herbal Medicine

 Text B Natural Products

 Supplementary Reading Preface to Encyclopedia of Natural Products

Unit Six

 Text A Introduction of Organic Chemistry

 Text B Preface to Medicinal Chemistry: A Biochemical Approach

 Supplementary Reading Health Care Delivery

Unit Seven

 Text A The Scope of Automation in Pharmaceutical Analysis (1) .-.

 Text B The Scope of Automation in Pharmaceutical Analysis (2)

 Supplementary Reading Instrument Analysis

Unit Eight

 Text A Development of New Drugs (1)

 Text B Development of New Drugs (2)

 Supplementary Reading The Search for New Drugs

Unit Nine

 Text A Are Pharmacists Necessary?

 Text B The Emerging Role of Herbal Medicine in Health Care in Europe

 Supplementary Reading All about Caffeine

Unit Ten

 Text A Minimum Information for Sensible Use of Self-Prescribed Medicines An International Consensus

 Text B Restricted Use of Medicines in the United Kingdom

 Supplementary Reading Finding New Drugs to Treat Stroke

Unit Eleven

 Text A The Scope of Pharmacology

 Text B Biopharmaceutics

 Supplementary Reading Bodily Effects of Drugs

Unit Twelve

 Text A Drug Dependence (Drug Addiction)

 Text B Drug Abuse

 Supplementary Reading Addiction Is a Brain Disease,and It Matters What Matters in Addiction

Unit Thirteen

 Text A Good Drugs Dangerous Doses A growing threat to public and personal health

 Text B The Other Side of Antibiotics

 Supplementary Reading Getting the Right Dose at the Right Time

Unit Fourteen

 Text A New Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems

 Text B The Promise and the Paradox of the Next 20 Years

 Supplementary Reading Advances in Drug Delivery System

Unit Fifteen

 Text A FDA'S Responsibilities and Activities

 Text B How FDA Approves New Drugs Supplementary Reading The Safety of Medicines

总词汇表 Glossary