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Previous Volume 350:846-847 February 19, 2004 Number 8

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(California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public. Vol. 8.) By Lisa I. Iezzoni. 355 pp. Berkeley and New York, University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2003. $60 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-520-23742-0 (cloth); 0-520-23819-2 (paper).

In this wonderful book, Lisa Iezzoni opens a window to the overlooked world of people with mobility problems. She draws from extensive interviews of 119 mobility-challenged people (whose insights she quotes liberally), undertaken during her many months of policy research as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. Her material is also a product of her experiences with her own mobility problems, which developed during medical school, where she experienced distressing prejudice and intolerance.

Few physicians have received training in this area or know how to discuss mobility problems with patients and where to refer them. Many people live with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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