George Rosen Prize

George Rosen (NLM)

George Rosen (NLM)

The George Rosen Prize is awarded in even years to one or more authors of a historical monograph who make a significant contribution to the history of public health or the history of social medicine published in the six calendar years preceding the award’s nomination deadline, i.e. from 2018 to 2023. “Social medicine” here refers to historical efforts to heal, relieve, or prevent diseases arising inherently from social circumstances and is intended to be distinct from the “social history of medicine.” In this context, “social” refers to the perspective of the historical actors and not to the perspective or methods of the historian. Historical monographs are recognized in even years while articles, edited volumes, or museum exhibitions, films, or other significant works are eligible in odd years.   The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, in Kansas City, Missouri, May 9-12, 2024.

The award is named in honor of George Rosen, physician, public health administrator, past-president of the AAHM, and a major contributor to the history of social medicine. The AAHM Council established the award in 2014 thanks to the generosity of Susan Rosen Koslow.

The chair of the 2023-24 Rosen Prize Committee, Marta Hanson, welcomes suggestions to consider for the award. Publishers nominating an edited volume must send a copy to each member of the committee.

To nominate edited volumes and to obtain mailing addresses of all committee members, contact Chair of the George Rosen Prize Committee, Marta Hanson (mhanson4@jhmi.edu).

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2023.

Rosen Prize Committee, 2023-2024

Marta Hanson, chair
Emily Baum
Donna Drucker
Amy Fairchild
Evan Hart

Recipients:

2023: Michelle Browder, The Mothers of Gynecology 

2022: Arleen M. Tuchman, Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease, Yale University Press, 2020

2021: Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen The Oxford Handbook of Disability History (Oxford University Press, 2018)

2020: Guillaume Lachenal The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)

2019: Sarah Leavitt, curator “Architecture of an Asylum: St Elizabeth’s 1852-2017”, National Building Museum, Washington, DC

2018: Nükhet Varlik, Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

2017: Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer, Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

2016: Erica Charters for her book, Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years’ War (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

2015: Margaret Humphreys for her book, Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)