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Everything You Need To Know About Adoption

12 December 1987

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Book Review

With the Abortion Act of 1967, the improved availability and efficiency of contraception, and more liberal attitudes towards single mothers and illegitimacy, the...

Coping with Childlessness

30 January 1988

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Book Review

From their experience of being childless, Diane and Peter Houghton offer advice and consolation to others forced to reconcile themselves to a life without children...

Fertility and family planning in the third world

25 June 1988

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Book Review

William Agyei's book, in research form, is well written. First, he describes the demographic transition in the Third World and trends in adoption of family planning...

Infertility and Pregnancy Loss

28 January 1989

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Book Review

'We recommend that counselling should be available to all infertile couples and third parties at any stage of the treatment.' The preceding was a major...

The Billings Method of Natural Family Planning

08 July 1989

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Book Review

Three factors must be present to achieve pregnancy via sexual intercourse: ovum, sperm and fertile-type cervical mucus.

Family planning: fundamentals for health professionals, 2nd edition

08 November 1989

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Books

The first edition of the standard textbook for the English National Board's 901 Family Planning course, was published in 1981. As far as it goes, it is an adequate...

Vasectomy and Sterilization

24 July 1991

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Book Review

The operation for sterilisation carries little physical or mental risk, but later regret at having taken that step can be devastating. Most important about using...

Sex education for teenagers in holland

05 January 1994

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Clinical family planning

The author visited the Netherlands last year to investigate how young people were educated about sex and sexuality. Six looked at the use of the media, government...

FPA Contraceptive Handbook

18 May 1994

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Book Review

The FPA Contraceptive Handbook is up-to-date, concise, comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-read. The list of contents is clear; chapter headings provide specific...

Fertility

11 November 1992

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Book Review

Natural methods of family planning were developed to provide reliable birth control acceptable to various cultural, religious and individual requirements.