were published under the title Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 6th: 1843 pp. (London, Toronto: Collier-Macmillan) 7th: 1839 pp. 8th: 1811 pp. (Oxford, Beijing: Pergamon) 9th: 1905 pp. (Beijing: People's Medical Publishing House) 10th: 2045 pp. (Beijing: People's Medical Publishing House) 11th: 2021 pp. 12th: 2084 pp. 13th: 1440 pp. Reviews There have been many published book reviews of this widely used textbook. The first edition reviewer was highly enthusiastic and said that he was “delirious in his appraisal of the book”, that it was an “amazing work”, and “the product of enormous industry and keen insight”. A reviewer of the eighteen-hundred page second-edition described it as encyclopedic, indispensable, and as an excellent resource for students. The fourth edition reviewer noted that “all other related books seem to pale by comparison”. The 6th edition published in 1980 was praised for the extensive bibliography, but also noted that, although “this book is recommended to all those who prescribe drugs”, it had become “too large to be used by medical students as a routine textbook”. The ninth edition was designated as the "blue bible of pharmacology" and as the gold standard. The 12th edition was criticized for only one-ninth of authors being female. However, this had increased to one-fifth of the authors being female in the thirteen-edition. A policy of the editors has been to not disclose the potential conflicts of interest by the authors. The 12th edition authors were the recipients of over one-hundred and thirty patents. The thirteenth edition authors received three-million dollars from pharmaceutical companies which was undisclosed. Unlike earlier editions which were praised for being up to date, an analysis of the 13th edition found that the citations were older than those of other pharmacology textbooks. A team of the reviewers for the 2018 edition were more measured than those of earlier editions. References External links Online version of 12th edition (2011) 1941 non-fiction books Pharmacopoeias Pharmacology literature Medical textbooks