Rev. ed. of: Essentials of obstetrics and gynecology / [edited by] Neville F. Hacker, J. George Moore, Joseph C. Gambone. 4th ed. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A life-course perspective for women's health care: safe, ethical and effective practice -- Clinical approach to the patient -- Female reproductive anatomy and embryology -- Female reproductive physiology -- Endocrinology of pregnancy and parturition -- Maternal physiologic and immunologic adaption to pregnancy -- Antepartum care: preconception and prenatal care, genetic evaluation and teratology and antenatal fetal assessment -- Normal labor, delivery and postpartum care: anatomic considerations, obstetric analgesia and anesthesia and resuscitation of the newborn -- Fetal surveillance during labor -- Obstetric hemorrhage and puerperal sepsis -- Uterine contractility and dystocia -- Obstetric complications: preterm labor, PROM, IUGR, postterm pregnancy and IUFD -- Multifetal gestation and malpresentation -- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy -- Rhesus isoimmunization -- Common medical and surgical conditions complicating pregnancy -- Obstetric procedures -- Congenital anomalies and benign conditions of the vulva and vagina -- Congenital anomalies and benign conditions of the uterine corpus and cervix -- Congenital anomalies and benign conditions of the ovaries and fallopian tubes -- Pelvic pain -- Vulvovaginitis, sexually transmitted infections and pelvic inflammatory disease -- Genitourinary dysfunction: pelvic organ prolaps, urinary incontinence and infections -- Ectopic pregnancy -- Endometriosis and adenomyosis -- Family planning: reversible contraception, sterilization and abortion -- Sexuality and female sexual dysfunction -- Family and intimate partner violence and sexual assault -- Breast disease: a gynecologic perspective -- Gynecologic procedures -- Puberty and disorders of pubertal development -- Amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea and hyperandrogenic disorders -- Dysfunctional uterine bleeding -- Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies -- Climacteric: menopause and peri- and postmenopause -- Menstrual cycle-influenced disorders -- Principles of cancer therapy -- Cervial dysplasia and cancer -- Ovarian cancer -- Vulvar and vaginal cancer -- Uterine corpus cancer -- Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia