¹ I thank Nooshin Razani, then a medical student at UCSF, for organizing this trip. It included students, physicians, and myself, a medical anthropologist. Invited by the Ministry of Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we explored the Iranian Public Health Care System.

² I thank the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, and my colleagues and hosts, including Dr. Mohammad Jalali and Dr. Mohammad Taghdisi, for their help in facilitating the research and for their hospitality. I also thank the National Science Foundation for their support under Grant No. 0220594, the American Institute for Iranian Studies, and the University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate for their generous support. Any information contained in this article is the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions of any of the sponsoring institutes or agencies.

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