Psychology of Reproduction: Volume 1: Reproduction Potential and Fertility Control (Psychology of Reproduction ; V. 1) - Softcover

Walker, Anne; Niven, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750622490 ISBN 13: 9780750622493

Publisher: CRC Press, 1995

Synopsis

Each book in this series will provide a lively, concise and critical review of current research and theory in a specific area of reproductive psychology. Contributors develop appropriate biological, psychological and sociological aspects of their



subjects and show how the information can be applied in clinical practice. All books adopt an enquiring approach, asking what is the problem, how might it be explained, what is the evidence, how can this inform practice?



The lively and rigorous contributions to this book bring together a variety of current approaches to reproductive issues. Questioning common assumptions the authors draw on both theory and research, to argue that human reproduction is a complex



biological, social and psychological process. Whether or not people actually have babies, their potential for reproduction is an important part of their lives. Ideas about male-ness and female-ness and the expression of sexuality, and the fertility



control are all discussed. This text provides an invaluable resource for professionals working in the health care arena, particularly in gynaecology, midwifery, clinical or health psychology. Students will also find it accessible and relevant to their



diploma and degree level studies. * Presents a wide range of stimulating material * Brings together biological, social and psychological views * Encourages active debate on topical and important issues This series of three books brings together



up-to-the-minute theory and wide ranging research on the psychology of human reproduction for the first time and places it in a biopsychosocial context. The books are aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in psychology, nursing and midwifery,



but are alos essential reading for anyone with an interest in reproduction and human development. The other two titles in the series are: * Conception, Pregnancy and Birth * Current Issues on Infancy and Parenthood

About this title

Review

'This edited volume is the first in a series with the general heading of The Psychology of Reproduction; later volumes will be concerned with conception, pregnancy and birth and current issues in pregnancy and parenthood. The volume brings together a number of articles by researchers and practitioners; these are all original pieces with the exception of two articles published in the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology in 1991. The topics covered in the chapters include psychological aspects of gender and identity, puberty, menstruation and PMS, menopause, gynaecological procedures, andrology, family planning decisions, premarital contraceptive use, elective abortion, sexual behaviour and HIV, and female sexuality and reproduction. In each case, the areas covered are placed within a social and political context, and the editors use short paragraphs to introduce each chapter and to make links with two or three applications, in which suggestions are made as to how the material covered in the chapter can be put to practical and policy use. The origins of the series lie in the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology, to whom the editors are affiliated. The enthusiastic commitment to the Society and its aims shines through in some of the writing; as the editors say at the conclusion of their Preface, 'We hope that, like us, you will find the psychology of human reproduction, despite its inadequacies and omissions, a fascinating topic and that you will learn something of a more personal as well as academic interest from these books' (p. xi). Many opportunities are taken to stress that human reproduction and its man
Roger Ingham, Dept. of Psychology, University of S

Synopsis

This text brings together a variety of current approaches to reproductive issues. It questions common assumptions, draws upon both theory and research to argue that human reproduction is a complex biological, social and psychological process. The potential for reproduction is an important part of peoples' lives and ideas about male-ness and female-ness and the expression of sexuality and fertility control are discussed here. This book is one in a series of three; the other two titles are "Conception, Pregnancy and Birth" and "Infancy and Parenthood".

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750622490
• ISBN 13: 9780750622493
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208