{"product_id":"contraceptive-research-and-development-institute-of-medicine-9780309054423","title":"Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContraceptive Research and Development\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u0026amp;D investments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContraceptive Research and Development\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Institute of Medicine,Committee on Contraceptive Research and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0309054427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780309054423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e National Academies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.28w x 1.57d","brand":"Institute of Medicine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447618777343,"sku":"9780309054423","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8d811b8-8feb-4424-b2c5-3854ebde8d3b.jpg?v=1777233898","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contraceptive-research-and-development-institute-of-medicine-9780309054423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}