Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future

by National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Polly F. Harrison

The contraceptive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309054427
• ISBN13: 9780309054423
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"