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Contraception: Your Questions Answered

  • 6th Edition - September 30, 2012
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: John Guillebaud, Anne MacGregor
  • Language: English

2013 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Primary Health Care! Now in edition 6, Contraception: Your Questions Answered has been completely revised and updated to incorpor… Read more

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2013 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Primary Health Care!

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.

Key features

  • Popular question and answer format

Readership

General PractitionersFamily planning doctors and nursesMedical students with a special interest in this field

Table of contents

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.

Review quotes

‘Provides a wealth of information... graphically illustrates the need for practitioners to be thoroughly knowledgeable.’Toni Belfield, Director of Information, Family Planning Association

‘I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for detailed information about different contraceptive methods, their failure rates and side-effects. Whether trying to choose a method to use, or as a doctor having to answer patients' queries, this is an invaluable resource. It is well laid out and highly readable, with clear answers backed up with clinical evidence. Excellent.’

‘This is a must have if you are a GP. It answers all those niggling questions that your patients ask you, and that you ask yourself – what else do you need?...’

‘If this book does not answer your question I would be amazed. A perfect, handy reference for practising GPs.’

‘This is an excellent reference book for anyone who has an interest in family planning, highly recommended, it does what the title suggests; answers any questions regarding contraception. A must for every GP, family-planning nurse and doctor. Truly 5 star… Contains definitive information on all new methods.’

‘The book provides a detailed explanation of the various methods of contraception available. With full explanations (probably the first time in your life that you will have access to the full facts) of how each method works. A must for any woman of reproductive age wishing to avoid pregnancy.’

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 30, 2012
  • Language: English

About the authors

JG

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, UK

AM

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