Acknowledgments
I am deeply indebted to several individuals and institutions without
whom this work could not have been done. First and foremost, I am
grateful to the physicians who shared their stories and lives. Their courage
and candor stunned, inspired, and humbled me. Several funders assisted
invaluably with various aspects of this project: the Arthur Vining Davis
Foundations; Karen Davis, John Craig, David Sandman, and Robin Os-
borne at the Commonwealth Fund, from which I received support ini-
tially as a Picker/Commonwealth Scholar; the National Institute of Mental
Health, through a Career Development Award; the Russell Sage Foun-
dation; the Rockefeller Foundation; and Yaddo. I am very grateful to Peter
Ohlin at Oxford University Press for his support and encouragement,
and to Colleen McCue and Brian Desmond. For assistance transcribing
and analyzing these interviews, and working on the manuscript, I am
devoted to Antonius Wiriadjaja, James Zvokel, Cydney Halpin, Frank
Griggs, Mary DuVernay, Davin Skalinder, Joseph Siragusa, Daniel Fish-
man, Shaira Daya, Jennifer Hersh, and Jonathan Weiss. Renée Fox pro-
vided additional input in the analysis of this material; and Melanie
Thernstrom and Stewart Adelson provided valuable comments on the
manuscript. For their support in various capacities, I also want to thank
Jonathan Howe, Anne O’Keefe, Willo Pequegnat, Kristine Dahl, Anke
Ehrhardt, and Masud Rahman.