Publisher's Synopsis
This atlas-text contains 80 color plates-with detailed captions-that include charts and graphs as well as medical and surgical drawings and photographs on the full range of topics and issues involved in contraception and family planning. These include an introductory section, the rationale for family planning, the history of family planning, human sexuality including reproduction and male physiology, service delivery, hormonal contraception, condoms, female barrier contraception and spermicides, intrauterine devices, periodic abstinence and coitus interruptus, voluntary surgical contraception, contraception in breastfeeding and bottlefeeding mothers and during lactational amenorrhea, abortion, AIDS, and new methods on the horizon.
