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Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons
from Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Great book!!! totally worth it 
I feel this is a great book for toxicology students. I am a PhD student and I find it very very useful.......I am not sure about undergrads. I totally liked it.
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7th Edition, Essential if Flawed 
This is a book by and for professional toxicologists. Folks in the field have long regarded it as the standard. It is the primary text for most graduate programs in toxicology around the world. I own editions 2, 4 and now 7. Despite some of the rather uninformed reviews below, it does keep getting better with each subsequent edition. And note the dates on some of the other reviews, they refer to earlier editions. Number 7 just came out in November.
I cannot compare the 7th edition to number 6 but I can... more info
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it's still the ultimate toxicology book
there is not that much to say, really. Casarett & Doull's Tox book has been THE toxicology textbook for the past years. This edition has a few additions and changes, but not that many, so older editions are still worthwhile. However, anyone in the environmental science field, toxicology, carcinogenesis or related subjects, you should have this as a reference book. period.
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Hopeless 
As a doctoral graduate in toxicology and now a practicing preclinical toxicologist for several years, I rate this book not only as "poor", but poorer with each new edition.
Consider Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology. Like C&D, it is a text with nearly as many authors as chapters, and covers diverse subject material. UNlike G&G, though, Casarett & Doull's painfully lacks the editorial wisdom, guidance, and "tie-together" of the exceedingly disparate chapters. As a result, there is a lot of... more info
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