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The publication of a third edition of this book in

twelve years bear’s ample testimony to the continu-
ing importance of pharmacovigilance, the study of

the safety of marketed medicines.

It is also a memorial to the founding editor, Pro-
fessor Ronald Mann, who sadly died in December

2013, shortly before the new edition appeared. It
had already been decided by the new editors to
rename the book Mann’s Pharmacovigilance, made
more prescient by recent events. Ron Mann, as he
was universally known, had spent a professional
lifetime in the field of drug safety as a regulator, as
an educator and as a physician. I had the privilege
of working with him at the (then) UK Medicines
Control Agency some twenty years ago when the
word pharmacovigilance had not even been
invented. Ron’s quest to instil scientific rigour into

the then disorganised field of drug safety repre-
sented a great step forward in the regulation of

medicines, and the three editions of this book
clearly demonstrate this achievement. The title
Mann’s Pharmacovigilance is richly deserved.