A Good Birth
Based on her landmark Good Birth Project, Dr. Anne Drapkin Lyerly gets beyond the "medical" versus "natural" debates and describes what matters most to women giving birth. Compelling and passionate, A Good Birth radically repositions our understanding of what makes childbirth valuable and meaningful to women.
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About Anne
Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA is the author of A Good Birth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience, to be published by Avery/Penguin Group(USA) on August 1st, 2013. She is also an obstetrician, a professor and a mother of five.
Events
March 4th, 2014
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series, Duke University
Getting Beyond the Birth Wars: In Search of A Good Birth
September 26-29, 2013
AABC Birth Institute and Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Signing
September 18, 2013
Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC-Chapel Hill
Talk
August 8, 2013, 7pm
Books, Inc, Palo Alto, CA
Talk & Signing
August 4, 2013, 2pm
McIntyre's Books, Pittsboro, NC
Talk & Signing
August 1st, 2013, 7pm
Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
Talk & Signing
May 24, 2013
Grand Rounds/Infant’s Aid Society Lecture at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Reproductive Ethics in the Era of Fetal Care
May 16, 2013
The Lawrence Lader Lecture at Harvard Medical School
Getting Beyond the Birth Wars: In Search of A Good Birth
Lyerly aims to make doctors, moms, and moms-to-be feel less judgmental about other people's choices and more empowered when it comes to their own.
