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ix This book is the product of years of dialogue with colleagues, mentors, and friends about the politics of medicine and human subjects research. I have been fortunate to be embedded in networks of talented and generous scholars who have helped make this work better in many different ways. Several colleagues read the manuscript in its entirety at various stages of preparing it for publication; I am especially grateful to David Hess, Sharra Vostral, Sal Restivo, Nancy Campbell, Sharon Anderson-Gold, Torin Monahan, Lorna Ronald, and Rose Weitz for their invaluable insights. Other colleagues read parts of the book in manuscript form. I owe many thanks to Steven Epstein, Joseph Dumit, Raymond DeVries, Virginia Eubanks, Ann Koblitz, Cynthia Schairer, and Jameson Wetmore for reading draft chapters and providing critical and encouraging feedback on the material. In addition, many colleagues have provided stimulating conversation about the clinical trials industry and about scholarship more generally. These colleagues include James Sorenson, Sergio Sismondo, Kristin Peterson, Jeanette Simmonds, Nate Greenslit, Kathryn Milun, Michael Montoya, Natasha Lettis, Jason Patton, Jean-François Blanchette, Hector Postigo, Dorothy Roberts, Charles Bosk, Howard Brody, Kenneth Richman, Paul Appelbaum, Leigh Turner, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Melinda Cooper, Chloe Silverman, Andrew Munro, Alesha Durfee, Yasmina Katsulis, Mary Margaret Fonow, Karen Leong, Clark Miller, and Dan Sarewitz. The research for this project was supported by the National Institutes of Health under a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award 5F31MH070222 from the National Institute of Mental Health. I was only able to complete this project, however, because of the generosity of many individuals in the clinical trials industry who agreed to be interviewed and who allowed me to conduct participant observation at their investigative sites. Arizona State University, particularly the Women and Gender Studies Program , supported the preparation of the manuscript through the provision of a junior sabbatical that provided time to complete revisions. I also owe many thanks to Doreen Valentine for her enthusiastic support and the entire editorial team at Rutgers University Press for the publication of this book being a transparent process. I also thank the following journals for permitting the use Acknowledgments x Acknowledgments of previously published chapters or chapter sections: Harvard Health Policy Review, Science and Public Policy, and Sociology of Health and Illness. Thanks are also due to my family and to friends outside of academia. I have received support from my family throughout my education and in my career. I am forever grateful to my parents and grandparents for providing me the opportunities that enabled the pursuit of this profession and way of life. I am particularly pleased that my mother Carol Fisher and brother John Fisher have read much of the book as it was being developed. It is wonderful to be able to share this work with them, particularly because it has consumed so much of my time, energy, and thoughts for the past several years and, in many ways, represents who I am. In addition, Ken and Diane Monahan have become a second family to me. They always express interest in my work and celebrate my accomplishments with me. All of my friends outside of academia have provided support in various ways at various times over the years that I worked on this project. Elise Giroudon has been a good friend since she saved me on my first day of school in a foreign land, and I appreciate her continued interest in the content of my work as well as the process for giving it an audience. I must particularly acknowledge Noelle Robertson and her partner Scott Reid whom I can always depend upon for the most stimulating, thought-provoking conversations about the medical profession. I would also like to thank Rebecca Lord for her warm friendship and her technical skills. The person to whom I have the most profound gratitude is my favorite colleague and my life partner: Torin Monahan. It has been through our conversations over meals and the work ethic of our home that I have come to understand my research in the way that I do. Most of the valuable insights I have had about my data have come because of forcing articulations about my work for Torin. I cannot even begin to express my gratitude to him for establishing with me this exchange of ideas and for encouraging each other to think better and harder about not only our research but also about the world. Finally, I must not forget to express my gratitude to Paris who...