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Prescribing Medicines to Adolescent Women

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This chapter will cover some information about young people’s development, how that affects the ability to consent to treatment, how that can be judged, and how it affects the ethics of prescribing. Following this, the practical applications of prescribing to adolescent women will be discussed using two key examples: contraceptive products and treatments for mental health disorders, specifically depression.

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    Sue Bagshaw

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Bagshaw, S. (2015). Prescribing Medicines to Adolescent Women. In: Harrison-Woolrych, M. (eds) Medicines For Women. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12406-3_3

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