ABSTRACT

Family practitioners and practice nurses are often well placed to offer good contraceptive advice because they already know the patient's health and circumstances. The latest edition of this best-selling pocketbook summarizes the new methods, and the developments in the methods already available, and the various factors to be considered in using th

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |3 pages

Sexually transmitted infections

chapter |2 pages

Combined hormonal contraception

COMBINED ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES

chapter |5 pages

Tumours

chapter |1 pages

Cervical cancer

chapter |1 pages

Choriocarcinoma

chapter |3 pages

Arterial wall disease

chapter |13 pages

Intercurrent diseases

chapter |7 pages

Maximum age for COC use

chapter |10 pages

Progestogen-only pill (POP)

chapter |2 pages

Injectables

chapter |6 pages

Contraceptive implants

chapter |11 pages

Intrauterine contraception

chapter |16 pages

Actinomyces-like organisms (ALOs)

chapter |1 pages

Postcoital contraception

chapter |1 pages

Contraindications (see Table 10)

chapter |1 pages

Contraindications

chapter |5 pages

Summary: counselling and management

chapter |6 pages

Other reversible methods*

chapter |3 pages

Spermicides

chapter |1 pages

Appendix

chapter |3 pages

Background reading