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,...

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