1. Editor’s comments

   • Richard H. Hall

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

2. Why participatory research? Guest editors’ introduction

   • Randy Stoecker
   • Edna Bonacich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 14

3. From margins to center? The development and purpose of participatory research

   • Budd L. Hall

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 28

4. The discovery of participatory research as a new scientific paradigm: Personal and intellectual accounts

   • Peter Park

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 42

5. Collaborative research: Harnessing the tensions between researcher and practitioner

   • Philip Nyden
   • Wim Wiewel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 55

6. Enhancing participatory research with the community oriented primary care model: A case study in community mobilization

   • Thomas Plaut
   • Suzanne Landis
   • June Trevor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 56 - 70

7. Using participatory research in community consortia development and evaluation: Lessons from the beginning of a story

   • Darlyne Bailey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 82

8. Synergistic development and participatory action research in a Nahuat community

   • María Eugenia Sánchez
   • F. H. Eduardo Almeida

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 99

9. Creating knowledge through theater: A case study with developmentally disabled adults

   • Mark Lynd

   OriginalPaper Pages: 100 - 115