Abortion Care
About this book
This comprehensive review of the emotive and often controversial topic of abortion provides clinicians with a multidisciplinary focus on abortion services, discussing clinical topics in their sociological, legal and ethical context. It is particularly timely as novel methods of service delivery make this vital resource more accessible, allowing abortion to be performed in community settings. Topics include medical and surgical methods of abortion, ultrasound scanning, pain control, complications, and abortion in women with medical conditions, as well as ethics, stigma, and human rights. Written by leading authorities in their subject areas, Abortion Care is essential reading for medical and nursing specialists and forms a useful resource in the delivery of graduate courses in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology and sexual and reproductive healthcare. It is also of interest to professionals involved in planning, delivering and managing women's health services, including counsellors, service managers and public health specialists.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 An historical perspective
- 2 Ethics
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 Psychosocial factors in women requesting abortion
- 5 Support and counselling
- 6 Ultrasound scanning in early pregnancy
- 7 Early medical abortion
- 8 Vacuum aspiration
- 9 Medical abortion after nine weeks
- 10 Dilatation and evacuation
- 11 Pain control
- 12 Follow-up
- 13 Contraception after abortion
- 14 Complications and safety
- 15 Women with medical problems
- 16 Feticide
- 17 Fetal anomaly
- 18 Longer-term outcomes in women requesting abortion
- 19 Myths and misinformation
- 20 Stigma and issues of conscience
- 21 More than one abortion
- 22 Factors associated with second trimester abortion
- 23 Staff perspectives
- 24 Mid-level providers
- 25 Telemedicine
- 26 Decriminalizing abortion – the Australian experience
- 27 Abortion in international human rights law
- Appendix: List of useful organizations
- Index
