A Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception: Millennium Edition 1999-2000 [Paperback]

M.P.H. Robert A. Hatcher M.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

A pocket guide, "Managing Contraception" is packed with useful information for everyone in the medical field from students to clinicians. "Managing Contraception" includes algorithms, diagrams, color photos of the pills your patients are using, 1998 CDC Treatment Guidelines along with 30 mini-chapters of information about contraception. "Managing Contractption" includes information on the following topics:
Menstrual Cycle Physiology
Counseling Guidelines
Contraceptive Options
Sexually Transmissible Infections (CDC Guidlines)
WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria for Starting Contraceptive Methods
Spanish/English Translation of Key Family Planning Words
Important Phone Numbers and Websites

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It was wonderful to read your Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception. I marveled at how much you included; it is such a handy pocket brain! Fantastic - This handbook is so helpful and wonderfully put together. You have done a great service. I carry a copy in my pocket at clinic." -- Sharon Schnare, CNM MSN, FPN, Seattle, Washington

"Managing Contraception" has all the markings of an instant classic and should be in the pockets of many health care providers and trainees. I look forward to this book being available to all medical students in the year 2000, and would be hopeful that it might even be available sooner. Congratulations on a wonderful contribution". -- Pierce Gardner, MD;Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; State University of New York; Stony Brook

About the Author

Robert A. Hatcher M.D., M.P.H., professor of Obstetrics and Gynocology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta Georgia for 30 years. Dr. Hatcher is considered an international expert on Family Planning and Contraception. Miriam Zieman, M.D., Assistant Professor of Gynecology nd Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine, and Alston P. Watt, M.P.H. Research Assistand Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine. Other contributors include Anita Nelson M.D. and Phil Darney M.D., M.S.c., two important leaders in the field of contraception from UCLA and UC San Francisco respectively, and Erika Pluhar who is geting her Ph.D in human sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania are such creative and committed leaders. Extensive editorial input has been provided by Bert Peterson of the CDC and soon the World Health Organization, Marcel Vekemans of INTRAH, Mitch Creinin in Pittsburgh and Tara Shochet and James Trussell of Princeton University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Ardentmedia, Inc (2000)
• ISBN-10: 0967193915
• ISBN-13: 978-0967193915
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,004,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars well done concise summary of family planning, September 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception: Millennium Edition 1999-2000 (Paperback)

Bob Hatcher has done it again. This time he and his staff have compressed all you need to know about counselling for, and prescribing contraception in one pocket sized, easy to use book, While his larger and longer book is the standard in the field, it is too big to carry around with you as you are seeing patients. This small handbook gets around that problem and makes it easy for clinicians to look things up just when then need to know them. I recommend it heartily for those clinicians who provide reproductive health services.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pocket guide for clinicians in family planning, September 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception: Millennium Edition 1999-2000 (Paperback)

This is an excellent and handy reference for novice and experienced clinicians who are working in women's health care. Not only does it provide quick references for aspects of family planning methods, it also has some very helpful guidance on women's health and primary care. I use it as an adjunct in case methodology for teaching graduate nurse-midwifery students.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide; good for health providers & smart consumers, September 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception: Millennium Edition 1999-2000 (Paperback)

Dr. Bob Hatcher has done it again; identified a need in the field of contraception and filled it. This pocket-sized guide will be useful for medical students, Ob/Gyn residents, primary care physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who'd like to have definitive contraceptive information they can just carry in their pocket.

It's also a useful guide for any smart consumer who'd like to make better decisions about her own contraceptive choices.

The guide is definitive, and well-worth the small cost of admission!