Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adverse drug reactions : history, terminology, classification, causality, frequency, preventability / Jeffrey K. Aronson -- Pharmacogenetics of adverse drug reactions / Sudeep P. Pushpakom & Munir Pirmohamed -- Toxicology and adverse drug reactions / D.J. Snodin & A. Suitters -- Clinical trials' collecting safety data and establishing the adverse drug reactions profile / John Talbot, Marianne Keisu & Lars Stohle -- Clinical laboratory safety data / Alan Craig -- Statistics : analysis and presentation of safety data / Stephen J.W. Evans & Dorothea Nitsch -- Proactive pharmacovigilance and risk management / June Raine ... [et al.] -- Regulatory aspects of pharmacovigilance / K.L. Strutt & B.D.C. Arnold -- Legal aspects of pharmacovigilance in the European Union / Christine H. Bendall -- Dictionaries and coding in pharmacovigilance / E.G. Brown & J.E. Harrison -- Adverse drug reactions : societal considerations / Nicky Britten -- Safety of biotherapeutics / Andrew Erdman, James Nickas & Benton Brown -- Vaccine safety surveillance / E. Miller & J. Stowe -- The adverse effects of drugs used in oncology / Anne Kehely -- Adverse drug reactions and pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines / Joanne Barnes.