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This Week at the Library of Virginia
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the
World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
FREE EVENT
Author Jack El-Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of neurologist
and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS documentary The
Lobotomist. El-Hai, whose work is based in part on archival research in
Freeman’s personal papers at the George Washington University, takes readers
into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine—the desperate attempt
to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help
during the middle decades of the twentieth century, before the introduction of
effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book signing will follow this
event.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist
Movement by Mary Henold
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
FREE EVENT
Mary J. Henold, assistant professor of history at Roanoke College, will explore
and sign Catholic and Feminist, the first history of American Catholic feminism.
Covering the movement from the 1960s through the early 1980s, Henold
shows that although Catholic feminists had much in common with their sisters
in the larger American feminist movement, Catholic feminism was distinct and
had not been simply imported from outside.
Attend and Win a Featured Book!
The Library of Virginia will hold a drawing for a FREE COPY of the featured
author’s work at each of its Book Talk events. Registration takes place before
each event. You must be present to win.
Copies of the books are available in the Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia:
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwedo/shop.htm .
The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown
Richmond. Free parking is available underneath the building.
www.lva.virginia.gov
804.692.3500
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