After more than thirty-five years on the market, the role of the pill is due for a thorough examination."—from the Introduction In this fresh look at the pill's cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins re-examines the ...
Despite the fact that modern low-dose oral contraceptives are very seldom associated with serious adverse effects, knowledge of the contraindications for oral contraceptive use is particularly important because of the...
Edited by a noted scholar of health and sexuality, Encyclopedia of Birth Control is a complete report on the historical development and efficacy of contraceptive practices around the world, both past and present.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States , 1995. MMWR 1996 ; 45 : 1-85 . 3 . Kirby D , Barth R , Leland N , et al . Reducing the risk : a new curriculum to prevent sexual risk - taking . Fam Plann Perspect 1991 ; 23 : 253-263 .
This data booklet highlights estimates of the prevalence of individual contraceptive methods based on the World Contraceptive Use 2019 (which draws from 1,247 surveys for 195 countries or areas of the world) and additional tabulations ...
Contemporary Guide to Contraception
Evaluates evidence for an increased risk of cancer in women using combined oral contraceptives, progestogen-only hormonal contraceptives, post-menopausal estrogen therapy, and post-menopausal estrogen-progestogen therapy. Although the carcinogenicity of these preparations...
Biddlecom , Ann E. , and Bolaji M. Fapohunda . “ Covert Contraceptive Use : Prevalence , Motivations , and Consequences . ” Studies in Family Planning 29 ( 1998 ) : 360–732 . Biddlecom , Ann E. , John B. Casterline , and Aurora E. Perez ...
24 Janet Farrell Brodie notes that most middle-class married women felt little to no impact from the Comstock Law and “had abortions and babies in the privacy of their own homes.”25 A third problem was that as long as the trafficking of ...
“Both the health care professional and the consumer will benefit greatly from this topical book . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice The prescription is more than a piece of paper—or just as likely these days, a piece of digital data.