An unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in America.

"The most comprehensive reference guide of major health and mental health services and policy research centers in the United States." Profiles over 80 university-based centers, other public and private policy analysis and research organizations, and the Veterans Administration Health Services Research and Development Field Programs. Geographical arrangement. Entries give such identifying and descriptive information as location, primary research areas, academic research affiliations, and current projects. Subject, funding, and name indexes.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.