I guess we will have to agree to disagree.  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Holland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:16 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29

Thanks, not trying to be impolite, but I don't think what your say here has
anything to do with my question.  I still don't think that such a "talk" has
any relevance to genealogy; the talk is about a book on the history of
lobotomies.


--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


	From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
	Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
	To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
	Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 3:13 PM
	
	
	Hi, Katie.  Very much, in my opinion; genealogy is the study of
ancestral
	families of any age and place, and surely finding her at that
institution
	explained her absence from the census rolls and revealed the reason
for the
	long periods (1862-1896) when she seemed to have been absent from
all family
	records and anecdotes.
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Katie Holland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
	Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:44 PM
	To: Paul Drake
	Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
	
	but, Paul, what has this got to do with genealogy?
	
	
	--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
	
	
		From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
		Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
		To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
		Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:37 PM
		
		
		Thanks, Ms. OBrion.  I feel that recognition, treatments and
results
	of
		mental problems (or any other serious illness) are vital to
	understanding
		our ancestors and their lives.  My own G-Gmother was
committed three
	times
		over 30 years, the last commitment having been for life, and
the
	diagnoses
		were "mania" in one entry and "some lactation problem in
		another.  Was she
		committed by her family?  By a physician? Was she nutty or
did harm
	to
		anyone, thereby bringing about the "mania?  What in the
world did
		"some
		lactation problem" tell us about her life, actions and later
	temperament??
		
		
		Paul
		
		-----Original Message-----
		From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and
family
	history.
		[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Katie
Holland
		Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:26 PM
		To: [log in to unmask]
		Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
		
		I'm not sure what this has to do with genealogy?
		
		
		Katie Holland
		
		
		--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Catherine OBrion
		<[log in to unmask]>
		wrote:
		
		From: Catherine OBrion <[log in to unmask]>
		Subject: Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
		To: [log in to unmask]
		Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:25 PM
		
		Free Event
		
		Wednesday, October 29
		Book Talk:
		The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic
Quest to
	Rid the
		World of Mental Illness
		Time: Noon
		Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 East Broad
Street,
	Richmond
		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 20th century, before the
	introduction of
		effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book sale
and
	signing will
		follow the talk.
		
		This event is sponsored by the Library of Virginia
Foundation, VCU
		Libraries,
		and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in
celebration of
	Archives
		
		Month in Virginia.
		
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