Search for dissertations about: "Abortion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 102 swedish dissertations containing the word Abortion.
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1. The Swedish Abortion Pill : Co-Producing Medical Abortion and Values, ca. 1965–1992
Abstract : Abortion pills have had a large impact. Since their introduction to national markets in the 1990s, scholars have examined how abortion pills have changed medical practices, illegal abortion, and reproductive activism. What has gone unstudied, however, has been the development and the history of abortion pills. READ MORE
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2. Unintended Pregnancy, Abortion and Prevention : Women and Men's Experiences and Needs
Abstract : Women and men’s experiences and needs in relation to induced abortion, and their views on the prevention of unintended pregnancies were explored through questionnaire studies at 10 and13 Swedish women’s clinics (Papers I–IV). Among 798 women in age range 14 – 49, 35% had experience of at least one previous abortion, and in the age range 20 – 49, 41%. READ MORE
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3. Urban women applying for induced abortion. Studies of epidemiology, attitudes and emotional reactions
Abstract : In Sweden between 32-38,000 women annually elect to terminate pregnancy by means of induced abortion, though their reasons are still not well understood. The purpose of these studies, carried out at the Department of Obstetrics and gynecology and of Community Medicine at University Hospital, Malmö, was to elucidate the incidence of induced abortion in an urban population, with special emphasis on epidemiological and socio-demographic factors, the women's attitude to abortion, and the incidence and severity of post-abortion emotional reactions. READ MORE
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4. "Therapeutic abortion" on demand : a social-psychiatric study of some background factors in legal abortion
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5. Recurrent spontaneous abortion : a clinical, immunological and genetic study
Abstract : Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is defined as the loss of three or more consecutive pregnancies before 20 completed gestational weeks. The condition affects 0.5-1% of all women. In the majority of women with RSA, the cause remains unexplained after genetic, endocrine, immunological and anatomical investigations of the couple. READ MORE