Contraception - Ethics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Professional right of conscience.

30 Aug 2008 In recent years there have been numerous media reports of professionals attempting to expand the right of conscience and deny health care services requested by consumers. While the media has focused the most attention on pharmacists' right to refuse ... Read more...

Protecting the right of informed conscience in reproductive medicine.

30 Jul 2008 This essay sets down three directives for conscientiously objecting clinicians-physicians, particularly obstetrician/gynecologists, trained in NaProTechnology by the Pope Paul VI Institute and Creighton University School of Medicine and any medical ... Read more...

Ethical challenges of pregnancy prevention programs.

30 May 2008 Certain useful pharmaceutical agents carry a high risk of embryopathy. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in cooperation with drug manufacturers, has established pregnancy prevention programs (PPPs) to reduce the incidence of birth defects ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Contraception - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ethics in family planning FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health. 15 Apr 2009
• Soldiers of a different army. 30 Mar 2009
• Anticipating the anti-ageing pill. Lessons from the history of the oral contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy. 14 Jan 2009
• Bioethics in the Americas: North and South--a personal story. 30 Dec 2008
• Contraceptive availability to adolescents: do American values violate our most vulnerable? 15 Sep 2008
• Professional right of conscience. 30 Aug 2008
• Protecting the right of informed conscience in reproductive medicine. 30 Jul 2008
• Ethical challenges of pregnancy prevention programs. 30 May 2008
• The "future like ours" argument and human embryonic stem cell research. 30 May 2008
• Treating humanity as an inviolable end: an analysis of contraception and altered nuclear transfer. 30 Mar 2008
• Metaphysical problems in the philosophy of medicine and bioethics. 30 Mar 2008
• What religious ethics can and cannot tell us about reproduction and sexuality. 30 Dec 2007
• Some reflections on conscience. 29 Nov 2007
• Minors' rights in medical decision making. 29 Jun 2007
• Respecting adolescents' confidentiality and reproductive and sexual choices. 17 Jun 2007
• Reproductive health and public health ethics. 16 Jun 2007
• Martin Luther at the bedside. 27 Feb 2007
• [Responsible procreation] 30 Aug 2006
• Contra-contraception: a growing number of conservatives see birth control as part of an ailing culture that overemphasizes sex and devalues human life. Is this the beginning of the next culture war? 5 May 2006
• The theology of the body: some reflections on the significance for medical professions. 29 Apr 2006

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Technical information about 'Contraception'

Definition: Prevention of CONCEPTION by blocking fertility temporarily, or permanently (STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE). Common means of reversible contraception include NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; or CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES.

Descriptor UI: D003267

Alternative terms: Contraception; Contraceptive Methods; Contraceptive Method; Inhibition of Fertilization; Fertilization Inhibition; Birth Control; Fertility Control; Female Contraception; Contraception, Female; Contraceptions, Female; Female Contraceptions; Male Contraception; Contraception, Male; Contraceptions, Male; Male Contraceptions;

Related Mesh Headings: Family Planning Services; Population Control;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E02.875.194;

History Note: 1963; for BIRTH CONTROL use FAMILY PLANNING 1968-1974, use BIRTH CONTROL 1963-1967