P. G. Crosignani

Introduction S. O. Skouby Medical programs and contraception in particular should never end up in a vacuum. To improve compliance and avoid clinical side-effects, a continuous refinement of oral contraceptives is necessary based not only upon epidemiological but alsó upon clinical research. The...

INTRODUCTION by G.B. Candiani. In 1672 Reiner de Graff first described the ovarian follicle and this allows us to put in the right historical perspective our present knowledge in the field of reproductive endocrinology. In the last ten years there is no doubt that the endocrinological study of...

PREFACE The psychoendocrinology of humán reproduction is today considered to be an area of psychosomatic research where interdisciplinary collaboration assumes maximai importance. In man, the reproductive function is unique by virtue of its dual psychobiological and psychosocial nature in which...