Attitudes of medical practitioners towards family planning

Abstract

One of the main features of social change in the contemporary world has been the rapidly increasing rate in the growth of scientific knowledge and technological change. This increase which has inevitably been matched by a rapid increase in population has had a direct effect on the type and availability of and the demand for medical care. A direct result of this has been the rise of professionalism and specialisation within medicine and as such the profession has become a much admired and sought after occupation. The increasing complexity of society has brought people to a realisation that professional help is a necessary commodity and as a result professional groups have in recent years not only increased enormously in size and complexity but also in the power and influence that they wield. At the same time certain of the professions have become the centre of considerable fiscal and political controversy; of all groups this is especially true of the medical profession.