| Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine (Author), Committee on Contraceptive Research and (Author), Rosenfield, Allan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0309054427 ISBN-13: 9780309054423 Publisher: National Academies Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Reproductive Medicine & Technology - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 613.94 |
| LCCN: 96026149 |
| Physical Information: 1.57" H x 6.28" W x 9.26" (2.34 lbs) 534 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The contraceptive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen? 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. |