Contraceptive Research and Development
Subtitle: Looking to the Future
Contributors: Polly F. Harrison (Editor); Allan Rosenfield (Editor)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: November 4, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780309054423
Subjects: Birth control, contraception, family planning; Reproductive medicine; Public Health; Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Contraception; Medical / Nursing; Congresses; Forecasting; Research; methods; Health/Fitness
Description: Contraceptive Research and Development explores the frontiers of science where the contraceptives of the future are likely to be found and lays out criteria for deciding where to make the next R & D investments. The book comprehensively examines today's contraceptive needs, identifies "niches" in those needs that seem most readily translatable into market terms, and scrutinizes issues that shape the market: method side effects and contraceptive failure, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the implications of the "women's agenda." Contraceptive Research and Development analyzes the response of the pharmaceutical industry to current dynamics in regulation, liability, public opinion, and the economics of the health sector and offers an integrated set of recommendations for public- and private-sector action to meet a whole new generation of demand.