Product Description: This revised and updated Atlas provides a comprehensive guide to modern contraceptive practice. The book is heavily illustrated with color photographs and line drawings that guide the reader through the various options available and provide a valuable educational resource...read more

Product Description: Esta obra se contemplan los hitos del ciclo vital: enamoramiento, matrimonio, relaciones sexuales, concepción, embarazado, parto, pubertad, paternidad y maternidad, menopausia y muerte. De cada uno de ellos se preguntan cuáles son las bases biológicas que subyacen nuestra conducta, cómo han cimentado estas bases las diversas culturas antiguas y contemporáneas, y qué se puede extraer que ayude a resolver los problemas actuales, tanto del individuo como de la cominidad en general...read more

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Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of life's milestones - sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, birth, puberty, love, marriage, parenting, menopause and death - they describe the biology behind our actions and consider how pressures imposed by various historical and contemporary cultures have further influenced our behaviour. By looking back at the past they attempt to make sense of the present, to see how and why these cultural modifications arose, how they have contributed to the richness of human sexual behaviour, and what our biological and cultural inheritance can teach us about safeguarding the continuation of our species. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The authors trace the origin and development of AIDS up to the present time, with numerous articles written by famous researchers from throughout the world.

Product Description: This volume contains the 1983 second edition of Textbook of Contraceptive Practice. The second edition represented a comprehensive reappraisal of the subject, taking account of the great expansion in information on all aspects of family planning that had occurred since the first edition was published in 1969...read more