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Acknowledgments

This book already has had a long life. Its early germination and cultivation began with its first official readers, Linda-Anne Rebhun, Kate Dudley, Philippe Bourgois, and the late Patricia Pessar, along with Tony George who helped me to cross-fertilize my ethnography with clinical investigations, even inside of the ministries. My first writing group partners had a profound early influence on my thinking: Ping-Ann Addo, Lyneise Williams, Judith Casselberry, Jennifer Tilton, and Gilbert Mireles.

I thank Roy Thomas, Robert and Mindy Fullilove, Robert Levine, Woody Lee, Kai Erikson, Nancy Angoff, Curtis Patton, Nora Groce, and my brother—Ben Hansen—for the inspiration and enduring support during my field research and beyond. My brother and sister—Martin Damhaug and Sara Brinch—and my stepmother, Kari Damhaug, also inspired me.

The financial and moral support in those early years of the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program, the Social Science Research Council, Yale’s Williams Fund, John Perry Miller Fund, Council on Latin American Studies, and also my husband Mark Turner (who contributed multiple insightful readings of fieldnotes and drafts), my mother Jacquelyne Faye Jackson; my grandparents, John and Mildred Jackson, and Conrad and Eva Hansen (posthumously); my parents-in-law, Joyce and Al Dixon; my grandparents-in-law, Violet and Lewis Jackson and Millie Brown; and my father, Arne Bjerring Hansen, made this project possible.

I thank those who generously opened the doors to my study of addiction treatment, Christian life, and mental health policy in Puerto Rico, including those informants who I cannot thank by name, as well as Margarita Alegria, Carmen Albizu, Salvador Santiago, Irene Melendez, Ann Finlinson, Hector Colon, Tomas Matos, Rafaela Robles, Maria del Mar Garcia, Gisela Negron, Midred Vera, Nemesio Moreno, Victor Vargas, and many others.

Jessica Rodriguez, Raul Medina, and Maria Teresa Botello gave me tremendous emotional and practical support during my field research. Juliana Herrera and the staff of Little Angels Daycare Center in Ponce, Alba Gomez, Theresa Rosenplanter, the staff of Creating Kids and Calvin Hill Daycare Centers, Sarah Bratchell, Ashley and Sharde Morris, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Guo, Magda Ramos, and Neeraja Sankaran for providing childcare during my many hours of researching and writing this project in the early years. I thank my son and daughter, Ananda and Kirin Turner, for accompanying me in my field research and for the insights they have given me about family life.

In the years that followed that early period, my analysis and writing slowly blossomed through the loving care of editor Adi Hadad (thanks to a Columbia University Press book fellowship); my addiction psychiatry mentor, Marc Galanter; my second writing group including Mindy Fullilove, Ann Burack-Weiss, Jack Saul, Lourdes Rodriguez, and Maura Spiegel. As I trained in addiction medicine, Annatina Miescher, founder of the Sobriety Garden, as well as art therapist Lena Friedman and horticultural therapist Caren Bowers tutored me in art and gardening as spiritual techniques of transformation.

Lucy Anderton, Arlene Davila, Kim Hopper, Bruce Link, Caroline Parker, Bruce Grant, Arthur Kleinman, Alondra Nelson, Faye Ginsburg, and Sally Merry also gave timely and insightful suggestions. Bringing this book to the point of completion were the devoted editors and creatives Rayna Rapp, Emily Martin, and Peter Bearman.