Experience With Abortion

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A Case Study of North-East Scotland

Gordon Horobin

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Cambridge University Press
18 May 2009

Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Medicine: general issues

Abortion is an emotionally explosive subject. The aim of this account is to make a contribution to counteract inadequate knowledge in the ill-documented field of abortion policy and practice. The subject has been treated as objectively and dispassionately as possible. This account describes the total abortion experience in a relatively homogeneous and static population (Aberdeen and its environs) where pregnancies have been terminated for many years. This study involves a variety of disciplines including obstetrics, gynaecology, psychiatry and sociology. The research techniques used and the results of the investigations are described and evaluated. Although this volume inevitably is specific in its place and time and in that sense is unique because it provides information about trends in abortion requests, acceptances, refusal rates and decision criteria it has a concreteness that makes this study a paradigm to be used in studies of abortion elsewhere.

By: Gordon Horobin
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780521112772
ISBN 10: 052111277X
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 18 May 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Raymond Illsley; Preface Gordon Horobin; Acknowledgements; Introduction Ian MacGillivray and Gordon Horobin; 1. Epidemiological background Jean Aitken-Swan; 2. Gynaecological aspects Ian MacGillivray and K. John Dennis; 3. The woman's story: married women Jean Aitken-Swan; 4. The woman's story: single women Jean Aitken-Swan; 5. Social and psychological characteristics at referral Peter C. Olley; 6. Long-term psychiatric follow-up Colin McCance, Peter C. Olley and Vivien Edward; 7. Overall clinical psychiatric assessment Colin McCance, Peter C. Olley and Vivien Edward; 8. Decision-making in therapeutic abortion Colin Farmer; 9. Conclusions Gordon Horobin; Indexes.