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. ________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html