Now in its fully revised and expanded fourth edition, this text includes the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of female contraception, offering an extensive overview of contraception types, including oral, injectable, emergency, and various cervical barrier contraceptives. It also discusses behavioral and sterilization methods of contraception as well as the clinical effectiveness, advantages, disadvantages, side effects, and mechanisms of action of each method.

The first part of the book presents a comprehensive review and an extensive overview of contraceptive types including oral, injectable, IUD, implant, ring, emergency, and various cervical barrier contraceptives. It also covers behavioral methods and female and male sterilization. For each contraceptive method, its clinical effectiveness, advantages, disadvantages, side effects, and mechanisms of action will be discussed at length.

As in the 4th edition, Part two of the bookaddresses specific clinical issues that healthcare providers face daily. The first chapter in Part II addresses treating healthy patients followed by those with bleeding problems, fibroids or hyperplasia, obese patients and patients with acne or hirsutism. The following chapters address other clinical issues including selecting contraceptives for women with medical problems, perimenopausal women, adolescents, and post-pregnancy patients. The final chapter reviews contraceptive controversies. The chapters on contraception in the adolescent and controversies in contraception are completely new chapters. 

Written by experts in the field, The Handbook of Contraception, Fourth Edition, is a valuable resource for obstetricians, gynecologists, reproductive medicine specialists and primary care physicians.

Donna Shoupe, M.D., MBA

Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Keck School of Medicine of USC

Los Angeles, CA, USA