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A comprehensive book written by experts in corresponding fields, it comprises 16 chapters. The first chapter is about drug discovery and pharmacognosy, which is more a historical account of the concepts and pitfalls of drug discovery. It is sub-divided into fourteen sub-sections covering areas such as synthetic drugs, ethnopharmacology and natural products, emergence of biotechnology, drug discovery process, drug discovery impasse, new drug approvals, drug recalls and withdrawals, why drugs fail, need for novel approaches, chemical approaches, pharmacology approaches, biological approaches and formulatory discovery.
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