Volume 80 Number 2, 2002

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• A Loss of Faith: The Sources of Reduced Political Legitimacy for the American Medical Profession
  Mark Schlesinger
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• The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience
  Charles E. Rosenberg

• Assessing the Field of Disability Research
  

  1. The Organization and Financing of Health Services for Persons with Disabilities
  Gerben DeJong, Susan E. Palsbo, Phillip W. Beatty, Gwyn C. Jones, Thilo Kroll, and Melinda T. Neri

  2. Health Services Research for Children with Disabilities
  James M. Perrin

  3. Uses of Evidence in Disability Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
  Alan M. Jette and Julie J. Keysor

  4. Using Administrative Data to Study Persons with Disabilities
  Lisa I. Iezzoni

• Commentary
  Meeting the Health Care Needs of Persons with Disabilities
  Carolyn Clancy and Elena M. Andresen

• Disability as a Public Health Issue: Findings and Reflections from the Massachusetts Survey of Secondary Conditions
  Nancy Wilber, Monika Mitra, Deborah Klein Walker, Deborah Allen, Allan R. Meyers, and Paul Tupper

• Notes on Contributors