Family Planning in Canada : : A Source Book / / Benjamin Schlesinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Schlesinger, Benjamin ,
• MitwirkendeR: Addy, Cenovia,; Argue, Cheryl,; Ball, Michael J.,; Belanger, Kathleen,; Bishop, Mary F.,; Bradley, Eleanor J.,; Dawson, Elaine,; Ebanks, G. Edward,; Fortier, Lise,; Garrett, Nancy,; Gentles, Ian,; Greenglass, Esther,; Grindstaff, Carl F.,; Guyatt, Doris,; Hannah, W. J.,; Kremer, Elmer J.,; Landolt, C. Gwendolyn,; Mackenzie, C. J. G.,; Marsden, Lorna R.,; Morris, Heather S.,; Powell, Marion G.,; Schlesinger, Benjamin,; Schwenger, Cope W.,; Summerhill, Louise,; Swinton, Constance,; Thompson, Virginia,; Watt, Susan,; Whitridge, Margaret,; Wolfish, Martin G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

To encourage an understanding of the issues in what is becoming a matter of public policy, Professor Schlessinger has compiled the first Canadian collection on family planning. It contains thirty-three articles, of which seventeen have never been published, written by doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, sociologists, and social workers. The articles have been arranged in six sections. 'An Overview' contains articles on family planning from the perspectives of medicine, sociology, religion, and women's rights groups. 'Professionals and Volunteers' examines the roles of medical personnel, social workers, and volunteers in family planning. 'Government Reports' includes the recommendations of the First national Conference on Family Planning, and excerpts from the Senate Report on Poverty and the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. 'Contraception' surveys methods of birth control and services, and reports on a few selected studies in this area. 'Adolescents and Young Adults' deals with the problem of pregnancy and contraceptive services for teenagers and single university students. 'Abortion' presents the views and attitudes of various Canadian groups towards abortion, and includes an analysis of abortion as a public health problem. There is, in addition, a section on resources, with a glossary of terms, an annotated bibliography of Canadian articles, a list of films and teaching aids, and the addresses of major Canadian agencies dealing with family planning. This book will be of considerable use to all engaged in counselling, research, or professional training, as well as to those with a personal interest in the whys and wherefores of family planning.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. An Interview -- The need for family planning and population control in Canada -- Population and family planning: an overview -- Viewpoints. Is family planning in rural areas adequate? -- Obstacles to progress in family planning -- Some mythology of birth control -- Some religious views on family planning -- Family planning and women's rights in Canada -- Part Two. Professionals and Volunteers -- The role of doctors in family planning in Canada -- The family doctor's role in preventing unwanted pregnancies -- Family planning and social work practice -- Voluntarism in family planning in Canada -- Part Three. Government Reports -- The federal family planning program : Some implications for social work -- From the Status of Women. Responsible parenthood -- From Poverty in Canada. Poverty and family planning -- The First National Conference. Recommendations of the First National Conference on Family Planning -- Venereal disease in Canada -- Part Four. Contraception -- Conception control in family planning -- Choosing contraceptives according to need -- Serena. An alternative approach to family planning in Canada -- Vasectomy : Canada's newest family planning method -- Female sterilization -- From Babies by Choice. Babies by choice, not by chance -- Part Five. Adolescents and Young Adults -- The pregnant schoolgirl -- Family planning and the adolescent girl -- Birth control counselling in an adolescent clinic -- 'Family' planning and the single university student -- Changing profile of a family planning clinic -- Part Six. Abortion -- Abortion: an introduction -- Attitudes toward abortion -- Abortion: A challenge for social work -- ACCRA. Background and structure of ACCRA -- Brief for the protection of the unborn child -- Birthright -- Abortion as a public health problem and community health measure -- Resources -- A glossary of family planning terminology -- Annotated bibliography -- A paperbound book library on family planning -- Other sources -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments