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The Cloak of Competence, Revised and Updated edition
Robert B. Edgerton
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Description for The Cloak of Competence, Revised and Updated edition
Paperback. This edition bring up-to-date the author's seminal study of mental retardation. Focusing on the role of stigma and the efforts of the mentally handicapped to pass normal lives, the text explores such areas as social competence, independence and quality of life. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBPK; MMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation. For the first time, the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives, their fears, and their hopes. He focused on the role of stigma in their lives and their efforts to pass as normal, as well as the need they had for normal benefactors. Now, using the same ethnographic methods, Robert Edgerton follows up the original population over a period of three decades. His new findings greatly expand our knowledge of these individuals, suggesting that as ... Read more
This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation. For the first time, the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives, their fears, and their hopes. He focused on the role of stigma in their lives and their efforts to pass as normal, as well as the need they had for normal benefactors. Now, using the same ethnographic methods, Robert Edgerton follows up the original population over a period of three decades. His new findings greatly expand our knowledge of these individuals, suggesting that as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520082267
SKU
V9780520082267
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About Robert B. Edgerton
Robert B. Edgerton is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order (1985), and The Individual in Cultural Adaptation (1971), both published by California.
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