Includes index.

Pt.1. Basic concepts -- Main surfactants used in the pharmaceutical field -- Formulatin concepts for the emulsion maker -- Emulsion properties and related know-how to attain them -- Suspension formulation -- Pt.2. Health applications -- Emulsins as drug delivery systems -- Parenteral fat emulsions: structure, stability, and applications -- Use of emulsions as topical drug delivery systems -- Vesicles as a tool for dermal and transdermal drug delivery -- Ophthalmic emulsions and suspensions -- Administration of emulsions to the gastrointestinal tract -- Dry absorbed emulsions -- Nanosuspensions for the formulation of poorly soluble drugs -- Pharmaceutical suspensions and their applications -- Pt.3. Tools and methods for experiments and measurements -- Experimental design in emulsion and suspension formulations: theoretical aspects -- Applications of experimental methodology to emulsions and suspensions -- Rheology of suspensions and emulsions -- Determination of size distributions of submicrometer particle dispersions by photon correlations spectroscopy.