Contraception: A Guide to Birth Planning Methods

摘要

In both developing and developed countries, women's failure to use contraception is often due to lack of adequate information about the various methods, how to use them, and the likelihood of side effects. This manual provides, in simple detail and nontechnical language (with many illustrations), descriptions of major contraceptive methods, their advantages and disadvantages, reliability, correct use, possible side effects, and the means by which they may be obtained. The manual's first eight chapters each describe a method of contraception: the pill (including injectables); IUD's; condoms; diaphragms; spermicides; periodic abstinence; female sterilization; and male sterilization. The remaining two chapters discuss human sexuality and the physiology of reproduction.