Contraceptive Research, Introduction, and Use: Lessons from Norplant

by Committee on Contraceptive Research and Development, Polly F. Harrison, Institute of Medicine, et al.

As the first real contraceptive innovation in over 20 years, and as a long-acting method requiring clinical intervention for application and removal, the implantable contraceptive Norplant has raised a wide range of issues that could offer valuable lessons about the problems to be addressed if other new contraceptive technologies are to enter the marketplace. In April 1997 an Institute of Medicine workshop on implant contraceptives reviewed newly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309059852
• ISBN13: 9780309059855
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"