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Core Concepts in Health, Brief Cover Image
Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Contraception and Abortion

Chapter Outline


This chapter focuses on various contraceptive methods and their advantages and disadvantages; the links between effective contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases; and the history and legal status of abortion in the United States.
  1. Principles of contraception
  2. Reversible contraceptives
  3. Permanent contraception: sterilization
  4. Choosing a contraceptive
  5. The abortion issue
  6. Abortion methods
  7. Complications of abortion








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