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Previous Volume 331:621 September 1, 1994 Number 9

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Revised and updated edition. By Robert B. Edgerton. 247 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1993. $35 (cloth); $15 (paper). ISBN 0-520-08225-7 (cloth)

Edgerton's revised edition of his 1967 book, The Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally Retarded (Berkeley: University of California Press), retains its relevancy even though patients who are mildly cognitively impaired, the subjects of his books, are no longer admitted to state facilities for the mentally retarded. The new edition includes the original text along with 25-year follow-up data on selected cases and two new chapters that address conceptual criticisms of the original book and a review of how thinking about people with mild mental retardation has changed over the years.

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