![]() ![]() ![]() I remember rereading that sentence several times. Most interestingly to me, she went on to briefly mention that her deceased uncle had been a hospital patient who received a lobotomy as a ward of the state in 1968. The writer declared her support for efforts then going on to replace anonymous grave markers at state psychiatric hospitals with named markers. Like many of my literary quests, my book The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness began by chance and took a long time to complete.īack in 1996 I was the author of a single book about the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, devoid of ideas for any new books I could write, when I found an interesting letter to the editor in the morning newspaper. By Jack El-Hai (Wonders & Marvels contributor) ![]()
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