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.
- Popular question and answer format
New to this edition:
- New methods
- Combined hormonal contraception: Qlaira
- Implant: Nexplanon
- Emergency contraception: ulipristal acetate
- New regimens
- Extended and continuous combined hormonal contraception
- Quick starting and bridging
- Updates
- Drug interactions and hormonal contraception
- Missed pill rules
- New co-author, Anne MacGregor
. Director of Clinical Research, the City of London Migraine Clinic
. Honorary Professor, Centre for Neuroscience & Trauma, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
. Associate Specialist in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Barts Sexual Health Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
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.