| Description |
1 online resource (184 pages) |
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""Science and Babies""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Reproductive Health Issues ""; ""INFERTILITY""; ""CONTRACEPTION""; ""TEENAGE PARENTHOOD""; ""PRENATAL CARE""; ""ETHICAL ISSUES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Infertility ""; ""HOW COMMON IS INFERTILITY?""; ""THE PROCESS OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION""; ""WHEN THE SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK""; ""SEEKING THE CAUSE""; ""DAMAGE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT""; ""OVULATION DISORDERS""; ""ENDOMETRIOSIS""; ""CAUSES OF MALE INFERTILITY""; ""MEDICAL THERAPIES FOR WOMEN AND MEN""; ""SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR VARICOCELE""; ""SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR WOMEN"" |
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""ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION""""NEW FERTILIZATION PROCEDURES""; ""In Vitro Fertilization""; ""Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer""; ""Setting Standards for the New Technologies""; ""PROTECTING THE CONSUMER""; ""Physician Credentials""; ""Using Procedures Appropriately""; ""Defining IVF and GIFT Success""; ""Questions to Ask an IVF Clinic""; ""Some Approaches for Protecting Consumers""; ""IVF CLINICS�THE CURRENT SCENE""; ""RESEARCH NEEDS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Contraception: Having a Healthy Baby at the Right Time "" |
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""WHY THE DECLINE IN CONTRACEPTIVE DEVELOPMENT?""""The Lawsuit Proliferation""; ""Changes in the Legal Rules""; ""The Increased Cost of Insurance""; ""The Funding Gap""; ""FDA Requirements""; ""THE NEED FOR BETTER CONTRACEPTION""; ""To Prevent Abortions""; ""To Slow Population Growth""; ""To Improve Maternal and Child Health""; ""To Increase the Choice of Effective Methods""; ""To Increase Acceptability and Accessibility""; ""HINDERING CONTRACEPTIVE USE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Birth Control Methods Available in the United States Today and Their Effectiveness"" |
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""Birth Control Methods on the Horizon for the United States""""Birth Control Methods Not Available in the United States""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 The Dilemma of Teenage Parenthood ""; ""THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM""; ""PRECURSORS OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY""; ""Lack of Contraceptive Use""; ""Early Onset of Puberty and Delayed Marriage""; ""Poverty""; ""Lack of Educational Goals""; ""Religious Involvement""; ""Family Relationships""; ""Peer Pressure""; ""WHAT DETERMINES CONTRACEPTIVE USE?""; ""Age""; ""Educational Goals""; ""Sex Education""; ""Acceptance of One's Sexual Behavior"" |
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""Stage of Development""""CONSEQUENCES OF EARLY CHILDBEARING""; ""Health Risks for Infant and Mother""; ""Education, Job Opportunities, and Income""; ""Economic Costs""; ""The Children of Teenage Mothers""; ""AVERTING TEENAGE PREGNANCY""; ""Sex Education Programs""; ""Efforts to Promote Chastity""; ""Improving Access to Contraception""; ""The Use of Abortion""; ""Other Approaches""; ""RESEARCH NEEDS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Prenatal Care: Having Healthy Babies ""; ""MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH�THE PICTURE TODAY""; ""LOW BIRTHWEIGHT AND INFANT MORTALITY"" |
| Notes |
""Poverty and infant mortality"" |
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| Subject |
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
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Contraception -- Social aspects
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Teenage pregnancy -- Social aspects
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Contraception -- Social aspects
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Teenage pregnancy -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Staff, Institute of Medicine
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| ISBN |
9780309555555 |
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0309555558 |
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