Pain: A Political History

Acknowledgments

215 I owe a great debt to many people who have provided challenging encouragement over the years and to many institutions supporting the research behind this work. The project was first conceptualized during my days on the faculty in social medicine at the School of Medicine and in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; it grew in scope when I joined Rutgers’ Department of History and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research; and expanded yet again during my years at Princeton—straddling the History Department, the Program in the History of Science, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. At all those places (and in other places too numerous to list), this project benefited from astute comments from friends, insightful readings by colleagues, and constructive discussions with many students. Two major grants played a critical role in supporting the research behind this work and also in supporting a sustained cross-disciplinary community of scholars in which to develop its potential. When the James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded me the Centennial Fellowship in the history of science (a multiyear grant to support a wide range of work on the cultural politics of the biomedical sciences), I envisioned a book on pain as the last in a long line of studies stemming from the generous ten years of support. Having arrived here, I gratefully acknowledge the support of Susan Fitzpatrick, John Breuer, and others at the foundation. Second , the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research provided another important grant in support of this project, along with regular interaction with a brilliant policy-engaged community of scholars and administrative support that knows no match from Lynn Acknowledgments 216 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Rogut and Cynthia Church. For their comments and insights in the RWJ setting, thanks go to Alvin Tarlov, Rosemary Stevens, Paul Cleary, and especially to David Mechanic, whose leadership and breadth of knowledge (as well as his involvement in pain policy) set a very high standard. For their feedback and encouragement in many other settings, thanks to Julie Livingston, David Mechanic, Peter Guarnaccia, Ann Jurecic, Mark Schlesinger, Gerald Grob, James Livingston, Uri Eisenzweig, Michael McVaugh, Kenneth Ludmerer, Walton Schalick, W. Bruce Fye, Mia Bay, Kevin Kruse, John Burnham, Steve Conn, Katya Guenther, Kevin Kruse, Barbara Grosz, Charles Rosenberg, Joseph Fins, Carla Nappi, Max Weiss, William Jordan, Christina Paxson, Paul Starr, Julian Zelizer, Ben Rich, Elizabeth Armstrong, Emily Thompson, Marni Sandweiss, Bengt Sandin, Claude Steele, Nancy King, Larry Churchill, Barry Saunders, Alexander Rothman, Kendrick Prewitt, Gail Henderson, Sue Estroff, John Kasson, Joy Kasson, Jonathan Oberlander, Don Madison, Allan Horwitz, Joanna Kempner, David Rosner, Jane Ballantyne, Knox Todd, Chris Feudtner, Dan Segal, Susan Schweik, Susan Lindee, Mark Sullivan, Mitchell Max, David Asch, Robert Aronowitz, Jonathan Kahn, Alan Richardson, Jooyoung Lee, Karen Sue Taussig, David Jones, Jonathan Metzl, Robert Brain, Joel Howell , Jennifer Gunn, Susan Jones, Jeffrey Brosco, Ken Goodman, Martin Pernick , Howard Markel, Holly Smith, Peter Guarnaccia, David Barton Smith, Vincent Kopp, Justin Lorts, Louise Russell, Stephen Pemberton, Mark Rodwin , James DuBois, Robert Proctor, Londa Schiebinger, Helena Hansen, Sam Roberts, Jack Lesch, Catherine Lee, Holly Smith, Leslie Gerwin, Kim Scheppele, Lisa Miller, Sean Wilentz, Janet Currie, Anne Case, Angus Deaton , and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. For close reading of the manuscript (or portions of it), thanks to Catherine Lee, Elizabeth Chiarello, Dan Rodgers, Hendrik Hartog, Philip Nord, Sarah Milov, Dov Grosghal, Angela Creager, Graham Burnett, Michael Gordin, Erika Milam, Miranda Waggoner, Elizabeth Armstrong, Bridget Gurtler, Nancy Hirschmann, Rogers Smith, Beth Linker, Alison Isenberg, Hannah-Louise Clark, Edna Bonhomme, Shakti Jaising, Anantha Sudhakar, Wangui Muigai, Catherine Abou-Nemeh, and Evan Hepler-Smith. Thanks also to all of the students in the Program in History of Science at Princeton and fellows in the 2006–2007 class at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, whose collective insights on individual chapters helped move the book to a new level. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 217 I owe a special word of gratitude to my wonderful editor at Johns Hopkins University Press, Jacqueline Wehmueller, who saw the value of the project early on, commented on it carefully, and, with characteristic patience, enthusiasm, and insight, helped me to develop it. The work also benefited from the brilliant copyediting and smart commentary of Audra Wolfe and Carrie Watterson. A number of former students provided research insights, participated in many discussions on the history of pain...