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, published by Avery/Penguin Group(USA) on August 1st, 2013. She is also an obstetrician, a professor and a mother of five.
Events
October 2, 2015
ACNM Minnessota Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN
A Good Birth
August 29th, 2015
Georgia Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, Amelia Island FL
Preventing Cesareans and Valuing Births: Public Response to ACOG Cesarean Reduction Initiatives
October 17th, 2014
American Society For Bioethics and Humanities, San Diego CA
Panel: Advancing HIV Research in Pregnancy
October 13th, 2014
Berman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
Risk and Responsibility: Ethics of Advancing HIV Research in Pregnancy
September 28th, 2014
Home Birth Summit III, Seattle WA
Panel: The Ethics of Home Birth
June 20th, 2014
Postpartum Support International, Friday Center, UNC
Signing
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
Insightful - [Lyerly] has an important message.
