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Along the way, so many colleagues have contributed to the intellectual development of this project. First, foremost, and over the long haul is Ruthie Gilmore, who always understood and supported the broadest vision of health politics I could document and imagine. Dick Walker was a great teacher in California politics and the power of the word, and AllanPred’sexperimentalimperativeinformedthecontent,ifnottheform, of this project. This book would not be what it is without the endlessly pleasurable and enlivening conversations with my dear friends and comrades Lisa Bhungalia, Jennifer Casolo, Shiloh Krupar, Chris Niedt, Nicole Pasulka, Micol Seigel, David Stein, Anjali Taneja, and Eddie Yuen. Nicole Pasulka deserves special thanks for applying her smart, writerly eye to my manuscript.Mymom,Charlene,anddad,Bill,supportedmywritingbefore I imagined this project. My time writing this book would not have been as rich without the fierce intellectual, political, and artistic community that I am blessed to help knit together with Dan Berger, Geoff Boyce, Chris Bravo, Nick Brown, Andrew Burridge, George Caffentzis, Wendy Cheng, Alexander Dwinell, Salvatore Engel-di Mauro, Silvia Federici, Emily Forman, Craig Gilmore, Ruthie Gilmore, Jesse Goldstein, Dara Greenwald, Rachel Herzing, Ashley Hunt, Amanda Huron, Jennifer Hyndman, Paul Jackson, Jen Kaminsky , Priya Kandaswamy, Sarah Kanouse, Malav Kanuga, Clem Lai, Sarah Launius, Laura Liu, Matt Lowen, Josh MacPhee, Josh McDonald, Laura McTighe, Erica Meiners, Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Matt Mitchelson, Lize Mogel, Alison Mountz, Jesse Nissim, Dana Olwan, Rebecca Popuch, Gretchen Purser, Jen Ridgley, Heather Rogers, Judy Rohrer, Paul Sargent, Rashad Shabazz, Brett Story, Fereshteh Toosi, Imogen Tyler, Aly Wane, and Ari Wohlfeiler. My intellectual and collegial debts extend from California to New York, and places in between. First, thanks go to the archivists and librarians at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, the Acknowledgments • xi • xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, the Tamiment Library at New York University, the Manuscripts and Archives Division at the New York Public Library, the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University, and especially Joellen ElBashir at the MoorlandSpringarn Research Center at Howard University, Wendy Chmielewski at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection at Swarthmore College, and the invaluable Michele Welsing at the invaluable Southern California Library. My thanks to Becky Dolhinow for being my bridge between geography and women’s studies. At Syracuse University, I am grateful for the care that Alicia DeNicola, Judy Rohrer, and Vincent Stephens took in reading portions of this work. Don Mitchell has been a generous and humorous interlocutor, on the page and at the bar, where I also enjoyed silly conversations about movies (I haven’t seen) with Matt Huber and Tod Rutherford . I am thankful for the intellectual and political nourishment I enjoyed at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center , particularly the conversations I had with Ashley Dawson, Vinay Gidwani , Jen Jack Gieseking, David Harvey, Paul Jackson, Fiona Jeffries, Cindi Katz, Karen Miller, Lily Saint, and Neil Smith. Debts are rapidly accumulating to new colleagues at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and I wouldliketoparticularlythankAnneBonds,JacobGlicklich,NicolasLampert , Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Magda Peck, and Kristin Sziarto for the warm welcome to my new home as this book was making its way into the world. Finally, and not least, I thank Jason Weidemann at University of Minnesota Press for supporting this project. Health Rights Are Civil Rights has been supported by and benefited from colleagues in print and talks. My thanks for the intellectual contributions of Cindy Patton and the Health Research and Methods Training Facility at Simon Fraser University for the Rebirth of the Clinic project; Matt Farish and Patrick Vitale for the special militarization issue of Antipode; Audrey Kobayashi for the special war and peace issue of Annals; Nick Brown and Ava Bromberg for the Just Spaces installation; Mark Hunter for his political geographies of health efforts; Antonis Vradis and Bob Catterall for their timely critical urban interventions at City; Matt Sparke and the Department of Geography at University of Washington; Ed Jackiewicz and the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge; and C. S. Soong at Against the Grain. ...

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