James W TrentJr, Inventing the feeble mind: a history of mental retardation in the United States, Medicine and Society No. 6, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia press, 1994, pp. xii, 356, illus., $30.00 (0-520-08243-5).

Mathew Thomson

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James W TrentJr, Inventing the feeble mind: a history of mental retardation in the United States, Medicine and Society No. 6, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia press, 1994, pp. xii, 356, illus., $30.00 (0-520-08243-5).

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James W TrentJr, Inventing the feeble mind: a history of mental retardation in the United States, Medicine and Society No. 6, Berkeley and London, University of Califomia press, 1994, pp. xii, 356, illus., $30.00 (0-520-08243-5).

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