Awards: Welch Medalists

Welch Medalists

1950	Henry E. Sigerist, for scholarly contributions
1951	No award
1952	Owsei Temkin, for scholarly contributions
1953	Erwin H. Ackerknecht, for scholarly contributions
1954	Jerome Pierce Webster and Martha Teach Gnudi, The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi (New York: Reichner, 1950)
1955	No award
1956	Lyman Henry Butterfield, Letters of Benjamin Rush (Princeton University Press, 1951)
1957	No award
1958	Charles F. Mullett, The Bubonic Plague and England: An Essay in the History of Preventive Medicine (University of Kentucky Press, 1956)
1959	No award
1960	Richard H. Shyrock, for scholarly contributions
1961	George Rosen, for contributions to the social history of medicine
1962	Genevieve Miller, The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France (University of Kentucky Press, 1960)
1963	Saul Jarcho, for scholarly contributions
1964	No award
1965	No award
1966	Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., John Morgan: Continental Doctor (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965)
1967	Howard B. Adelman, Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology (Cornell University Press, 1966)
1968	Saul Benison, Tom Rivers: Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science (M.I.T. Press, 1967)
1969	Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years (University of Chicago Press, 1962)
1970	No award
1971	Charles Donald O'Malley, (posthumously) for scholarly contributions
1972	Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Medicine at the Paris Hospital, 1794-1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962)
1973	Margaret Tallmadge May, Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body (Cornell University Press, 1968)
1974	Walter Pagel, for extensive and most valuable publications
1975	George W. Corner, for invaluable contributions
1976	Lelland J. Rather, Addison and the White Corpuscles (University of California Press, 1972); and Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Medicine (University of California Press, 1965); and for "his important continuing studies in the history of medicine"
1977	Lester S. King, " for his scholarly contributions to the history of medicine"
1978	Frederick L. Holmes, Claude Bernard and Animal chemistry: The Emergence of a Scientist (Harvard University Press, 1974)
1979	Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Medicine and Reform, 1626-1660 (NY: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1976, c1975)
1980	John Blake, for his valuable scholarly contributions to the history of medicine
1981	Erna Lesky, for significant contributions to the history of medicine
1982	James Harvey Young, for scholarly contributions to the history of medicine
1983	Robert Frank, Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction (University of California Press, 1980)
1984	Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin (University of Chicago Press, 1982)
1985	Nancy G. Siraisi, Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning (Princeton University Press, 1981)
1986	Gerald N. Grob, The State and the Mentally Ill: A History of the Worcester State Hospital (University of North Carolina Press, 1966); and Mental Institutions in America (NY: Free Press, 1972); and Mental Illness and American Society, 1897-1940 (Princeton University Press, 1983)
1987	James H. Cassedy, American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800-1860 (Harvard University Press, 1984); and Medicine and American Growth, 1800-1860 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
1988	Guenter B. Risse, Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Oxford University Press, 1987)
1989	Richard J. Evans, Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 (Oxford University Press, 1987)
1990	Rosemary Stevens, In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (NY: Basic Books, 1989)
1991	John Harley Warner, The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Knowledge and Identity in America, 1820-1855 (Harvard University Press, 1986)
1992	Philip Curtin, Death by Migration (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
1993	Heinrich von Staden, Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Ancient Alexandria (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
1994	Michael R. McVaugh, Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
1995	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale (NY: Knopf, distributed by Random House, 1990)
1996	Gerald L. Geison, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (Princeton University Press, 1995)
1997	Harold J. Cook, Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
1998	Mary Lindemann, Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
1999	Jack D. Pressman, Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
2000	W. Bruce Fye, American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and its College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
2001	Shigehisa Kuriyama, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (NY: Zone Books, 1999)
2002	Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life (Cambridge, MA, 1998).
2003	Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (London: Harper Collins, 1997)
2004	Kenneth Ludmerer, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the century to the Era of Managed Care (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
2005	Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
2006	Barron Lerner, Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
2007	Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity: Meaning of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China.
2008	Frank M. Snowden for The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (Yale 2006)

Genevieve Miller, "The Missing Seal," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 50 (1976):119, contains the titles or description of the works that were recognized before 1976.