Contraception : science and practice
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Contraception : science and practice
Butterworths, 1989
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
The world's population is increasing by more than one million every five days. The editors note that a continuing lack of priority given to tackling the world growth in human numbers (by reducing it rather than merely attempting to accommodate it), shows that neither politicians nor voters have yet appreciated its devastating implications for meeting human needs. They also note the great extent of individual need, as shown in developing countries by the World Fertility Survey. Consumer surveys in developed countries have also demonstrated the deficiency of our current birth control methods, in terms both of perceived safety and of simplicity for users. This work is designed to be a guidebook both in facing the emergency threatened by the increase in world population and in using the available methods better to meet the human needs concerning contraception. Intended particularly for physicians engaged in teaching or research in birth-control techniques, the aim has been to aid "practice" although it also contains much scientific knowledge. Much space has been given to the expanding subject of hormonal contaception and chapters on "the pill" aim to place the subject into perspective.
Table of Contents
- Birth control - a world view, M.Potts and P.Bhiwandiwala
- metabolic effects of combined oral contraceptives, M.D.G.Gillmer
- complications of combined oral contraception, J.Drife
- oral contraception and cancer, M.P.Vessey
- practical prescribing of the combined oral contraceptive pill, J.Guillebaud
- the progestogen-only pill, K.Fotherby
- systemic hormonal contraception by non-oral routes, I.S.Fraser
- postcoital contraception, A.Yuzpe and A.Kubba
- intrauterine contraceptive devices, H.JTatum and kE.B.Connell
- male and female barrier contraceptive methods, Walli Bounds
- natural family planning, Anna M.Flynn and J.Bonnar
- contraception for the older woman, P.Bowen-Simpkins
- cervical ripening prior to termination of pregnancy, G.M.Filshie et al
- abortion, G.M.Filshie
- female sterilization and it reversal, J.E.Rioux
- vasectomy and vasectomy reversal, W.F.Hendry
- progress towards a systematic male contraceptive, S.L.Jeffcoate.
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