Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Contents: Introduction: A life-course perspective for women's health care: Safe, ethical, and effective practice -- Clinical approach to the patient -- Female reproductive anatomy and embryology -- Obstetrics: Endocrinology of pregnancy and parturition -- Maternal physiologic and immunologic adaptation to pregnancy -- Antepartum care: Preconception and prenatal care, genetic evaluation and teratology , and antenatal fetal assessment -- Normal labor, delivery, and postpartum care: Anatomic consideration, 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 -- Gynecology: Congenital anomalies and benign conditions of the vulva and vagina -- Conginital 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 Dysfuction: Pelvic organ prolapse, 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 -- Reproductive endocrinology and infertility: 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 -- Gynecologic oncology: Principles of cancer therapy -- Cervical dysplasia and cancer -- Ovarian cancer -- Vulvar and vaginal cancer -- Uterine corpus cancer -- Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.