Abortion Care

DESCRIPTION

This comprehensive review of the emotive and often controversial topic of abortion provides clinicians with a multidisciplinary focus on abortion services, discussing clinical topics in their sociological, legal and ethical context. It is particularly timely as novel methods of service delivery make this vital resource more accessible, allowing abortion to be performed in community settings. Topics include medical and surgical methods of abortion, ultrasound scanning, pain control, complications, and abortion in women with medical conditions, as well as ethics, stigma, and human rights. Written by leading authorities in their subject areas, Abortion Care is essential reading for medical and nursing specialists and forms a useful resource in the delivery of graduate courses in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology and sexual and reproductive healthcare. It is also of interest to professionals involved in planning, delivering and managing women's health services, including counsellors, service managers and public health specialists.

• Assembles the main evidence to date on abortion care from a global perspective, to contribute to improved effectiveness and safety of treatment for women
• Addresses the need for working across boundaries of various disciplines in the approach to abortion provision
• Contains helpful descriptions and contact information of a wide variety of women's health organisations

CONTENTS

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction Sam Rowlands
1. An historical perspective James Drife
2. Ethics Sadie Regmi and John Harris
3. Epidemiology Wendy Macdowall and Kaye Wellings
4. Psychosocial factors in women requesting abortion Anneli Kero
5. Support and counselling Joanna Brien and Lisa Hallgarten
6. Ultrasound scanning in early pregnancy Emeka Oloto and Sharon Moses
7. Early medical abortion Caroline de Costa and Michael Carrette
8. Vacuum aspiration Pascale Roblin
9. Medical abortion after nine weeks Joyce Chai and Pak Chung Ho
10. Dilatation and evacuation Patricia A. Lohr and Richard Lyus
11. Pain control Ellen Wiebe and Regina-Maria Renner
12. Follow-up Sharon Cameron
13. Contraception after abortion Oskari Heikinheimo, Satu Suhonen and Pekka Lähteenmäki
14. Complications and safety Rodica Comendant, Stelian Hodorogea and Irina Sagaidac
15. Women with medical problems Kate Paterson and Helgi Johannsson
16. Feticide Emeka Oloto
17. Fetal anomaly Joanna Speedie, Richard Lyus and Stephen C. Robson
18. Longer-term outcomes in women requesting abortion Sam Rowlands
19. Myths and misinformation Toni Belfield
20. Stigma and issues of conscience Kelly R. Culwell and Caitlin Gerdts
21. More than one abortion Sam Rowlands, Kelly Cleland and James Trussell
22. Factors associated with second trimester abortion Roger Ingham
23. Staff perspectives Edna Astbury-Ward
24. Mid-level providers Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson and Helena Kopp Kallner
25. Telemedicine Ellen Wiebe and Daniel Grossman
26. Decriminalising abortion – the Australian experience Kerry Petersen
27. Abortion in international human rights law Joanna N. Erdman

Appendix: list of useful organisations
Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sam Rowlands, Dorset HealthCare and Bournemouth University
Sam Rowlands is Clinical Lead in community sexual and reproductive health at Dorset HealthCare and a Visiting Professor at the School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.

Contributors

Sam Rowlands, James Drife, Sadie Regmi, John Harris, Wendy Macdowall, Kaye Wellings, Anneli Kero, Joanna Brien, Lisa Hallgarten, Emeka Oloto, Sharon Moses, Caroline de Costa, Michael Carrette, Pascale Roblin, Joyce Chai, Pak Chung Ho, Patricia A. Lohr, Richard Lyus, Ellen Wiebe, Regina-Maria Renner, Sharon Cameron, Oskari Heikinheimo, Satu Suhonen, Pekka Lähteenmäki, Rodica Comendant, Stelian Hodorogea, Irina Sagaidac, Kate Paterson, Helgi Johannsson, Joanna Speedie, Stephen C. Robson, Toni Belfield, Kelly R. Culwell, Caitlin Gerdts, Kelly Cleland, James Trussell, Roger Ingham, Edna Astbury-Ward, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Helena Kopp Kallner, Daniel Grossman, Kerry Petersen, Joanna N. Erdman