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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are deeply indebted to our many colleagues who have worked with us over the years and provided unparalleled support and guidance, offering their critical eyes and vast repositories of wisdom to review this book as it came together. First of these, we are indebted to Martin McKee, our dear friend and close colleague who worked with us tirelessly in this research and continues to prove himself a paragon of integrity and virtue in public health. We also appreciate our many collaborators, without whose support the research that went into this book would not be as well-developed: Adam Coutts, Christopher Meissner, Marc Suhrcke, Price Fishback, David Taylor-Robinson, Benjamin Barr, Alexander Kentikelenis, Irene Papanicolas, Michael Marmot, Roberto De Vogli, Marina Karanikolos, Alexey Bessudnov, Johan Mackenbach, Lawrence King, Jose Martin-Moreno, Vicente Navarro, Michael Harhay, Jacob Bor, Karen Siegel, Chris McClure, Margalida Gili, Miquel Roca, David McDaid, David Gunnell, Shu-Sen Chang, Jan Semenza, Gauden Galea, Aaron Reeves, Patrick Hamm, and Ben Cave. Additionally we appreciate the time and energy of those who provided constructive comments, criticisms, and advice at various stages of the bookâs development, including Vladimir Shkolnikov, Sigur Sigurgeirsdottir, Shah Ebrahim, Ron Labonte, John Thompson, Margaret Whitehead, and Bo Burgstrom. Inevitably, we are unable to thank by name all the peer-reviewers who have contributed anonymous feedback that helped strengthen our analysis. Peer-review is a thankless task, and for those who contributed, we are ever grateful.
A special thanks goes to Molly Crockett for her extraordinary assistance in editing and revising the manuscript. We are also grateful to Michelle Spring for introducing us to the world of trade publishing and helping us to craft the initial book proposal. We are particularly thankful to Shah Ebrahimand Fiona Taylor for giving us refuge in Delhi during the final stages of this writing.
David would additionally like to thank his parents, Danny and Margit, and his sister, Michelle, for their unwavering support. His research has benefited from the insights and direction of Mary Ridgway, Lowell Levin, Mark Schlesinger, Larry King, Paul Schultz, Christopher Meissner, and especially Martin McKee. Thanks to the continued support and friendship of Chris Lockamy, Elizabeth Rush, and Louis Caron.
Sanjay would also like to thank his parents for always encouraging him to âread, read, read, read everythingâ (as per Faulkner), and his mentors Christine Balone for teaching him to write, Lee Marek for the gift of science, Rudolph Tanzi for the experimental spirit, and Noam Chomsky for being the quintessence of the public intellectual. Special thanks to Paul Farmer for always humbly bestowing on him the lessons of social justice; Jim Yong Kim for teaching him how to pick the right battles; Joseph Dumit for insights on academia; and Anita Desai, Alan Lightman, and Jean Jackson for the gift of the pen. For their mentorship in medicine and epidemiology, thanks to Rick Altice, R. Douglas Bruce,