Aimed at obstetricians and gynaecologists, this text stresses the avoidance of maternal-poetal trauma and offers a prospective form of management based on medico-legal principles. It includes legal and ethical issues relating to specific procedures and their consequences. In each chapter, the authors review a subject from both a clinical and practical perspective; while the legal editor subsequently comments on the subject from an attorney's point of view, emphasizing areas of major legal concern and outlining potential liabilities of practice. The text is organized following the chronology of normal pregnancy, ie antepartum issues, intrapartum complications and finally postpartum issues.

Product Description: This is an advanced clinical textbook covering in detail some of the complex medical and surgical problems that can occur during pregnancy but are generally ignored in other books. In six main sections dealing with normal pregnancy, psychiatric and psychological conditions, pelvic conditions, neurologic conditions, genetic conditions, and special problems, the book contains forty chapters on syndromes and conditions that are often frustrating or confusing to obstetricians, giving rise to uncertainty, delay, or erroneous diagnosis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the definitive textbook on the widely used vacuum extraction technique for operative vaginal delivery in obstetric practice. It is written by two of America's foremost obstetricians, Drs. John Patrick O'Grady and Martin L...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drug abuse, anorexia and bulimia, personality disorders, elective abortions, and miscarriage, are some of the problems that obstetrical patients may face. Obstetrics: Psychological and Psychiatric Syndromes offers a frank and practical approach to managing these and other conditions that are strongly influenced by the psychological state of pregnant women...read more