Contraception: Your Questions Answered
- 6th Edition - September 30, 2012
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Authors: John Guillebaud, Anne MacGregor
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 6 6 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 3 3 9 - 9
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Now in edition 6, Contraception: Your Questions Answered has been completely revised and updated to incorporate all the latest information about contraception methods, effectiveness, mechanisms, side-effects and complications.
- Popular question and answer format
General PractitionersFamily planning doctors and nursesMedical students with a special interest in this field
1. Introduction: the population explosion, sexual and contraceptive history-taking and counselling - the importance of fertility control.
2. Aspects of human fertility and fertility awareness: natural birth control.
3. Male methods of contraception.
4. Vaginal methods of contraception.
5. The combined oral contraceptive - selection and eligibility.
6. The combined oral contraceptive - follow-up arrangements and new routes of administration.
7. The progestogen-only pill.
8. Injectables and implants.
9. Intrauterine devices and systems.
10. Emergency (postcoital) contraception.
11. Contraception for the young, the not quite so young - and in future.
Further reading. Websites. Appendices.
- Edition: 6
- Published: September 30, 2012
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- No. of pages: 608
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780702056673
- eBook ISBN: 9780702053399
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John Guillebaud
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College London, UK; Trustee of the Margaret Pyke Trust, Formerly Medical Director of the Margaret Pyke Family Planning Centre, London, UKAM
Anne MacGregor
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Specialist Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Bart's Sexual Health Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Honorary Professor, Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry