吴达俊、庄思永主编的《制药工程专业英语(教育部高等学校制药工程专业教学指导分委员会推荐教材)》分为5个部分（PART），每个部分中有5个单元（UNIT）。每个单元由一篇课文和一篇阅读材料构成。阅读材料提供与课文相关的背景知识，以进一步拓宽课文内容，为学生自学（开拓视野和训练阅读技能）提供合适的材料。课文还配有相应的练习题。各篇课文之间、课文与相应的阅读材料之间既有一定的联系，又可独立成章，教学时可根据不同学时数灵活选用。课文与阅读材料共计50篇，均选自原版英文教科书、科技报告、专著、大型参考书和专业期刊，大部分为80年代末和90年代以来的出版物。

PART 1 MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Unit 1 Production of Drugs
Reading Material 1 Past Approaches to Discovering New Drugs as
Medicines
Unit 2 Structural Features and Pharmacologic Activity (Ⅰ)
Reading Material 2 Structural Features and Pharmacologic Activity (Ⅱ)
Unit 3 Chemotherapy: An Introduction(Ⅰ)
Reading Material 3 Chemotherapy:an Introduction (Ⅱ)
Unit 4 Novel Analgesics
Reading Material 4 Mild Analgesics-Antipyretics
Unit 5 Drug Development (Ⅰ)
Reading Material 5 Drug Development (Ⅱ)
PART 2 BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACEUTICALS
Unit 6 Isolation of Caffeine from Tea
Reading Material 6 Medicinal of Plant Origin: Historical Aspects
Unit 7 Developing Drugs from Traditional Medicinal Plants
Reading Material 7 Naturally Occurring Flavans Unsubstituted in the
Heterocyclic Ring
Unit 8 The Chemistry of Insulin
Reading Material 8 Steroid Saponins
Unit 9 Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections:Driving the Search for New
Antibiotics
Reading Material 9 Beta-Lactams Past and Present
Unit 10 Preparation and Purification of Heparin
Reading Material 10 Deoxyribonucleic Acid
PART 3 INDUSTRIAL PHARMACY
Unit 11 Tablets (The Pharmaceutical Tablets Dosage Form)
Reading Material 11 Evaluation
Unit 12 Manufacture of Tablets
Reading Material 12 Solids Mixing and Drying
Unit 13 Sterile Products
Reading Material 13 Processing
Unit 14 Sustained Release Dosage Forms
Reading Material 14 Tableted Slow Release Granulations
Unit 15 Kinetic Principles and Stability Testing
Reading Material 15 Degradative Pathways
PART 4 PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING
Unit 16 Reactor Technology
Reading Material 16 Fermentation
Unit 17 Distillation
Reading Material 17 Supercritical Fluid Extraction
Unit 18 Crystalization
Reading Material 18 Drying
Unit 19 Water and Air in the Chemical Process Industries
Reading Material 19 Chemical Process Industries and Environmental
Pollution Abatement
Unit 20 Practical Process Engineering
Reading Material 20 Valves
PART 5 FRONTIERS OF PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING
Unit 21 Chiral Technology and Single-isomers
Reading Material 21 When Drug Molecules Look in the Mirror
Unit 22 Interferon
Reading Material 22 Molecular Recognition. Chemical and Biochemical
Problems
Unit 23 The Marine Drug Potential
Reading Material 23 Drugs from the Sea
Unit 24 Catalytic Antibodies Generation of Novel Biocatalysts
Reading Material 24 Enzymes in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Unit 25 Principles of Drug Design
Reading Material 25 On Computer-Aided Drug Design
APPENDIXES
Appendix 1 The General Principles for Nomenclature of Chinese Approved Drug
Names
Appendix 2 INN采用的词干及其中文译名
Appendix 3 英汉对照新药名选编
总词汇表