Governing How We Care: Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments i extend my sincere gratitude to the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological research for its support of this work with the Hunt postdoctoral Fellowship (2008–2009). some of the research presented here was funded by the national institute on Drug Abuse (r01 DA12569, merrill singer, principal investigator, and r03 DA16532, susan shaw, principal investigator), the Agency for Healthcare research and Quality (r03 Hs014086, susan shaw, principal investigator), the university of Arizona social and Behavioral sciences research institute’s Faculty summer research Grant Development stipend, and the university of north Carolina. i was fortunate to have the help and instrumental support of able research assistants, Julie Armin, Kathryn Orzech, victor reyes, and Fayana richards. Julie Armin and victor reyes, in particular, contributed critical data analysis assistance to Chapter 4. thanks beyond words go to members of my various writing groups, which over the years have included victor Braitberg, thomas Chivens, Christopher Dole, elizabeth Garland, Adam Geary, thad Guldbrandsen, stacey langwick, Jennifer roth-Gordon, Amy stamm, and terry Woronov. i literally would not have finished this project without their deadlines and thoughtful criticism. sections of this book have been presented at the American Anthropology Association annual meetings; at the university of north Carolina, Department of Anthropology ; at the university of California, san Francisco, Department x / Acknowledgments of Anthropology, History and social medicine; and at the university of Arizona, Department of Gender and Women’s studies. i thank my colleagues in those settings, especially laura Briggs, John Clarke, Adam Geary, michele rivkin-Fish, and sandra soto, for their helpful comments , which pushed me to clarify and strengthen my arguments. in addition, michael Duke, Fletcher linder, lynn morgan, merrill singer, Janelle taylor, and anonymous reviewers for temple university press offered helpful insights and incisive critiques on chapters of the manuscript . An earlier version of Chapter 5 was previously published as nancy Campbell and susan shaw, “incitements to Discourse: illicit Drugs, Harm reduction and the production of ethnographic subjects,” Cultural An­ thropology 23, no. 4 (2008): 688–717; i am grateful to my coauthor on that essay, nancy Campbell, for moving my thinking on this material in productive directions. i have been fortunate to find a home for this book at temple university press, and i thank my editor, mick Gusinde-Duffy, for his consistent support and encouragement throughout the process and the press for securing expert copyediting assistance. my friends and colleagues at the place i call thornton Community Health Center showed me every kind of hospitality, making thornton a place i hated to leave. i remain indebted to them, and to our colleagues at the other thornton organizations that supported my research, for their generosity; i regret any instance in which i have not lived up to their expectations. Friends in far-flung places have enlivened the seemingly endless process of writing with their ongoing interest and support, including Jessica Fields, michael Hughes, matthew King, stacey langwick, Diane levy, Dale morgan, michelle parrish, Carole Bowe thompson, and susan Weinrich. every one of their gestures—reading drafts, making mix tapes, counseling me to continue—matters more than they can know. members of my dissertation committee (Judith Farquhar, sue estroff, Dorothy Holland, and Della pollock) set examples of intellectual achievement, each demonstrating unique ways of uniting theory and practice. i especially thank Judith Farquhar, mentor and role model, for her continuing interest in my work. my colleagues at the university of Arizona not only generously supported my time away to allow me to finish this book but also welcomed me to life in the desert with style and aplomb, for which i am grateful. Finally, i thank my love and my partner in life, Amanda Quinby, for contributing the beautiful photographs that illustrate this book and for giving it, and me, more than i can say. ...