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Acknowledgments I AM ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL TO Northern Illinois University for its program of Presidential Research Professorships. Receipt of one of these awards provided the budgetary support and released time that enabled me to write this book. Without the award, it would not have been written . I also extend grateful acknowledgment to John A. Robertson at the University of Texas at Austin, Bonnie Steinbock at SUNY Albany, and Robert H. Blank at the University of Canterbury for their help early in the research process. I wish to thank Christopher M. Jones, chair of my department, for his support in accommodating my absence during a particularly busy year in the department. I owe special thanks to the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington and its chair, Wylie Burke, for arranging a Visiting Scholar affiliation during the 2006–2007 academic year. I also thank Michael A. Corn and Carol Ware at the University of Washington for their insightful comments. Mark S. Frankel at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Jason Scott Robert at Arizona State University provided superb recommendations on reading earlier versions of the manuscript, and I am grateful for their direction. I thank Richard Brown, director of Georgetown University Press, for his encouragement; Nicole Kooistra, Jessica Jones, and Lauren Hall for their excellent research assistance; Neil Colwell for his original illustrations; and the tea ladies (Dorothy Coleman, Annette Johns, and Sharon Sytsma) for their good humor and support. For offering me wonderful house-sitting locations from which to write, I thank Linda Libby and Bobbi Malone. xi This page intentionally left blank ...

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