Abortion

Medical Progress and Social Implications

Ciba Foundation Symposium (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1985
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-471-91084-8 (ISBN)

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Abortion: medical progress and social implications Ciba Foundation Symposium 115 Chairman: D.T. Baird 1985 Worldwide, millions of abortions are induced every year. The problem of abortion will not disappear quietly from any society. There is therefore a need for the type of debate recorded in this book between representatives of the law, sociology, psychology, moral theology and policy-making, as well as medicine and basic science. The contributors examine abortion services in different countries; they discuss the medical and social, emotional and psychiatric effects of abortion and the refusal of abortion; and they survey old and new methods of performing abortions, from massage to menstrual induction with a morning-after pill. Above all, they tackle the moral, legal and political aspects. There is plenty of tension but no hostility in these discussions.
Malcolm Potts, who initiated the symposium, points out that right-to-life supporters and right-to-choice supporters have the same goal, the minimum amount of wasted life; but there is no solution to abortion other than the obligation to submit our ideas to inspection by other people, and the perpetual need to accept that one may always be wrong'. The book is for health professionals at all levels. It should also be read by everybody who thinks that abortion is important but complicated and who is willing to learn more, even if it means changing their mind'. Other Ciba Foundation Symposia published by Pitman: No. 105: Mechanisms of alcohol damage in utero Chairman: O.E. Pratt 1984 ISBN 0 272 79774 X No. 98: Molecular biology of egg maturation Chairman: J.R. Tata 1983 ISBN 0 272 79730 8 No. 86: The fetus and independent life Chairman: G.S. Dawes 1981 ISBN 0 272 79650 6

Symposium on Abortion: medical progress and social implications, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 27 29 November 1984 The original suggestion for this symposium came from Dr Malcom Potts Editors: Ruth Porter (Organizer) and Maeve O'Connor D. T. Baird Introduction D. B. Paintin Legal abortion in England and Wales Discussion L. Andol ek Abortion services in Slovenia D. A. Grimes Provision of abortion services in the United States General discussion 1 Abortion law and abortion services in Japan and other countries S. Wanjala, N. M. Murugu and J. G. K. Mati Mortality due to abortion at Kenyatta National Hospital, 1974 1983 Discussion T. N. Singnomklao Abortion in Thailand and Sweden: health services and short-term consequences Discussion P. Frank Sequelae of induced abortion Discussion D. A. Grimes and K. F. Schulz The comparative safety of second-trimester abortion methods Discussion S. L. Barron Some aspects of late abortion for congenital abnormality Discussion General discussion 2 Ethical aspects of abortion W. H. Kitchen, A. L. Rickards, G. W. Ford, M. M. Ryan and J. V. Lissenden Live-born infants of 24 to 28 weeks' gestation: survival and sequelae at two years of age Discussion Z. Matjek, Z. Dytrych and V. Schuller Follow-up study of children born to women denied abortion Discussion H. P. David Post-abortion and post-partum psychiatric hospitalization Discussion J. Mattinson The effects of abortion on a marriage Discussion D. T. Baird and Iain T. Cameron Menstrual induction: surgery versus prostaglandins Discussion E. E. Baulieu Contragestion by antiprogestin: a new approach to human fertility control Discussion R. J. Cook Legal abortion: limits and contributions to human life Discussion A. V. Campbell Viability and the moral status of the fetus Discussion J. I. Rosoff Politics and abortion Discussion Final general discussion Providing effective abortion services Effects on society of changes in abortion laws Contragestion M. Potts Medical progress and the social implications of abortion: summing-up Biographies of contributors Index of contributors Subject index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.3.1985
Reihe/Serie	Ciba Foundation Symposium ; No. 115
Verlagsort	Chichester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 244 mm
Gewicht	602 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-471-91084-8 / 0471910848
ISBN-13	978-0-471-91084-8 / 9780471910848
Zustand	Neuware