Research Catalog

Title

The contraceptive revolution : an era of scientific and social development / Egon Diczfalusy.

Author

Diczfalusy, Egon.

Publication

New York : Parthenon, c1997.

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Details

Description

xvi, 240 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Collected Work
• Contraception > history
• World health
• Contraceptive Devices > history
• Human reproduction > Endocrine aspects > Research > History > 20th century
• Contraceptive Agents > history
• Birth control > History > 20th century
• Contraception > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

Collected Work.

Note

• Reprinted from various sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Dr. Barzelatto, Professor Benagiano and Professor Fathalla -- 1. The Sir Henry Dale Lecture for 1978: Reproductive endocrinology and the merry post-war period -- 2. Future methods of fertility regulation -- 3. Gregory Pincus and steroidal contraception: a new departure in the history of mankind -- 4. Sustained Release Preparations: Improved long-acting fertility regulating agents: what are the problems? -- 5. Contraceptive science and technology for developing countries: a case history in a sensitive area -- 6. Gregory Pincus and steroidal contraception revisited -- 7. New developments in oral, injectable and implantable contraceptives, vaginal rings and intrauterine devices: a review -- 8. Has family planning a future? -- 9. Contraception in an integrated and divided world -- 10. The past is prologue: implications of a symposium -- 11. The history of steroidal contraception: what is past and what is present? --
• 12. Contraceptive prevalence, reproductive health and our common future -- 13. Reproductive physiology, reproductive health and the last decade of the millennium -- 14. The C. Donald Christian Memorial Lecture: Contraceptive prevalence, reproductive health and our common future -- 15. Reproductive health: a rendezvous with human dignity -- 16. The third age, the Third World and the third millennium -- 17. From mankind to humankind: reproductive health and gender equity.

ISBN

1850707480

LCCN

96034919

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries