Well, at least I think it’s a great book. I’m only on page 22. Stephen Hinshaw’s The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change is new from Oxford University Press. I just got it through interlibrary loan and am drinking up his careful distinctions between stigma, stereotype, and prejudice; and between various definitions of mental illness. I’m a little sad because one quick look in the index (I always go there first) shows “almshouses” followed by “ambivalence”. There’s no mention of dementia either. Or aging. I still think it’s going to be a great book. But I’ll just have to extrapolate…