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Voluntary sterilization in North Tyneside

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

K. Carnegie-Smith
K. Carnegie-Smith
Affiliation:
Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, North Yorkshire
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Summary

Since 1975, sterilization operations, on both men and women, have been performed with increasing frequency within the National Health Service in the North Tyneside Area in north-east England. Some characteristics of people seeking this form of contraception are described, and selected aspects are compared with the results from earlier studies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1984 , pp. 249 - 257
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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