Prescribing in pregnancy (4^th Ed.)

This thoroughly revised edition of Prescribing in Pregnancy is a practical and authoritative guide for all doctors who prescribe for pregnant women.

Contributors. Preface. Identifying fetal abnormalities. Treatment of common, minor and self-limiting conditions. Antibiotics in pregnancy. Anticoagulants in pregnancy. Treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Treatment of endocrine diseases. Drugs in rheumatic disease during pregnancy. Psychotropic drugs in pregnancy. Managing epilepsy and anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy. Treatment of diabetes in pregnancy. Treatment of asthma. Drugs of misuse. Prescribing for the pregnant traveller. Drugs in breastfeeding. Index.

Family practitioners, obstetricians, midwives

Peter Rubin is Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Nottingham and Chair of the General Medical Council Education Committee. He specialises in medical disorders of pregnancy and continues to practise medicine. From 1997-2003 he was Dean of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Margaret Ramsay is Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in the Academic Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.