Professional Development or Contraception

Professional Development: The Dynamics of Success

Author: Mary Wilkes Hull

This book provides the essential foundation necessary for the aspiring professional. It covers personal appearance, money management, job campaigning, values, ethics, and other key topics.

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Contraception: Your Questions Answered

Author: John Guillebaud

Contraception: Your Questions Answered is the established primary source of information about reversible methods of contraception. Presented in an informal - and yet highly informative - question-and-answer style, it represents a dialogue between general practitioner (asking the questions) and reproductive health specialist (providing the answers). The main aim of the book is to give practical guidance to busy clinicians when they are faced with patients who want help with choosing the best means of controlling fertility. Most chapters conclude with questions frequently asked by patients - the answers to which can be very difficult for the unprepared and busy clinician to improvise 'on the spot' in the surgery.

Written by contraception expert Professor John Guillebaud, this book is an invaluable resource for GPs, family planning doctors and nurses, trainee and consultant gynaecologists, medical students and the interested general reader.

• Popular question and answer format.


• Practical focus.
• Detailed consideration of reversible birth control technology.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Preface to the first edition
	How to use this book
1	Introduction: the population explosion, sexual and contraceptive history taking and counselling - the importance of fertility control	1
2	Aspects of human fertility and fertility awareness: natural birth control	19
3	Male methods of contraception	41
4	Vaginal methods of contraception	57
5	The combined oral contraceptive - selection and eligibility	95
6	The combined oral contraceptive - follow-up arrangements and new routes of administration	229
7	The progestogen-only pill	277
8	Injectable and implants	315
9	Intrauterine devices	357
10	Emergency (postcoital) contraception	451
11	The present and the future	485
	Further reading	531
	Believable websites in reproductive health	533
App. A	Use of licensed products in an unlicensed way	535
App. B	Factors to be considered in giving contraceptive advice	537
	Glossary	545
	List of questions frequently asked by users	547
	List of figures	551
	List of tables	553
	Index	555