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I was fortunate to begin and end this work in residence at intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary environments. The program in Social Theory at the University of Kentucky allowed me a postdoctoral year to set the course to explore democratic professionalism, and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University provided an unencumbered semester to bring this project to harbor. I am also grateful to the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green for its support of my research. An earlier version of Chapter  appeared in The Good Society. Parts of Chapter  were published in Polity. Parts of Chapter  draw on collaborative research conducted with Susan M. Olson and published in the Journal of Social Philosophy and the Utah Law Review. An earlier version of Chapter  was published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. I want to thank Richard Dagger and Alan Wertheimer for their excellent comments on the entire draft manuscript. Ellen Frankel Paul was invaluable in honing the book’s prospectus. Sandy Thatcher, Kevin Mattson, and an anonymous reviewer offered a number of fine suggestions and fostered a constructive review process. I will take this opportunity to thank three teachers, Stephen Leonard, Michael Lienesch, and Craig Calhoun, who each in their own way pressed on me the importance of studying living political and ethical thought in the context of concrete institutions and real social movements. Above all, I am grateful to Rekha Mirchandani for her care, thought, and attention to what really matters; her always immanent criticisms have strengthened this entire book. A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S ...

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