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Springer The Hippocampus 1986 Edition by R.L. Isaacson K.H. Pribram
The current volumes of The Hippocampus reflect the prodigious amount of work aimed at discovering the functions of this structure over the past decade. The hippocampus ideally lends itself to two types of study: (1) because of its regular and relatively simple cytoarchitecture it can serve as a model for cortical processing in general and (2) because of its size and central location the role of the hippocampus in the total ecology of brain function poses an important challenge. We attempted to divide the contributions to Volumes 3 and 4 according to these two types of experimental aims. As always however when one makes dichotomies one finds them inadequate in treating certain data and our attempt is no exception. There are contributions that do not fit the classification and there are others which fit both. In addition there are manuscripts which we wanted to include but which the authors were not ready to submit at this time. Larry Squire Mortimer Mishkin and others are making important contributions which donot appear in these volumes except among references throughout. But this was also the case for Volumes 1 and 2 where we sorely miss the irreplaceable contributions of James Olds Ross Adey and Brenda Milner. Volume 4 is concerned primarily with the role of the hippocampus in the ecology of the brain in regulating behavior and experience. The contri butions have the potential to raise the level of our understanding considerably. Table of contents : Memorial Tribute to Dr. Christopher Tietze.- Global Reviews.- Availability and Accessibility of Contraception: A Worldwide Public Health Problem.- Induced Abortion-A World Review.- Prevention of Contraceptive Failure.- Prevention of Contraceptive Failure-An Overview.- The Permanent Contributions of Christopher Tietze: Methods and Models.- Interception.- Prevention of Contraceptive Failures with Hormonal Implants.- Factors Contributing to Use-Effectiveness.- Illegal Abortion: Effects on Medical Practice and Public Health.- Illegal Abortion and Effect on Medical Practice and Public Health-Nigeria.- Utilization of Induced Abortion in Korea.- Induced Abortion in Latin America: Impact on Health.- Medical Practice after Legalization of Abortion.- Training and Delivery of Abortion in India.- Legal Abortions in Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe: An Epidemiological Review.- Medical Experience with Abortion after Legalization in Western Europe.- The Effects of Legislation of Abortion on Maternal and Perinatal Outcome.- Medical Practice after Legalization of Abortion: The Chinese Experience.- Medical Practice after Legalization of Abortion: Bangladesh.- Abortion Technology.- Some Lessons from the United States Experience with Legal Abortion.- Evolution of Second Trimester Abortion Techniques.- Training Physicians in Elective Abortion Technique in the United States.- Reducing the Risks of Pregnancy Termination.- Menstrual Regulation: Delivery and Training.- Problem of Septic Abortion in Bangladesh and the Need for Menstrual Regulation.- Menstrual Regulation Service Delivery.- The Karman Syringe in Family Practice: Techniques Safety and Usage.- Training in Menstrual Regulation: The Philippine Experience.- Delivery of Abortion Care in Hospital Clinic or Private Setting: Safety Cost and Access.- Delivery of Abortion Care in the United States.- Delivery of Abortion Care in Western Europe.- Induced Abortion Services in Asia.- Counseling and Abortion Care.- Contraception after Pregnancy Termination.- Maternal Mortality.- The Magnitude of Maternal Mortality: Definitions and Methods of Measurement.- The Future of Women's Health.- Future Policies and Practices to Promote Women's Health.