Review by Choice Review
This edited volume serves as a collection of case studies describing initiatives to provide better primary care for low-income communities through the Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative project, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation over a ten-year period (1999-2009). Representing a collection of voices, this volume provides different, and at times dissonant, perspectives on and explanations for the relative successes and lack of sustainability for various individual initiatives. The "Beginnings," "Summing Up," and "Scaling Up" parts are the clearest and most unified sections of the book, telling a story of the project and lessons learned. Individual chapters, however, ring true to experience, and are valuable in giving readers the details (some are revealed between the lines) of the project's challenges, some ultimately insurmountable. The editors claim to tell a story or stories, but in many respects the book reads more like a grant report. This limits the interest it might have for general readers. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners. M. D. Lagerwey Western Michigan University
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Review by Choice Review