Annual Meetings
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2008 Annual Meeting
Rochester, NY
Thursday, April 10- Sunday, April 13, 2008
LAC: Ted Brown & Stephanie Brown Clark
2008 American Association for the History of Medicine Award Winners
We are pleased to report the following awards announced at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Rochester, New York, April 10-13, 2008
The Osler Award
Ronald W. Alfa (Stanford University School of Medicine),
“Redefining Inert: The Birth of the Placebo in American Medicine”
Honorable mention awards:
David P. Johnson (Duke University School of Medicine),
“Dr. George W. Harley: A new perspective of a 20th century medical missionary’s influence on 21st century global health”
Honorable mention awards:
Amanda V. Thornton (Dartmouth Medical School),
“Coerced Care: Thomas Thistlewood’s account of medical practice on sugar plantation slaves in colonial Jamaica, 1751-1786.”
The Shryock Medal
Stephen E. Mawdsley (University of Alberta),
"Polio and Prejudice: Charles Hudson Bynum and the Racial Politics of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1944-1954."
The William H. Welch Medal
Frank M. Snowden for The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (Yale 2006)
The Garrison Lecturer who will deliver the keynote speech at the annual meeting in 2009 in Cleveland Ohio will be Katharine Park.
The Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Career Development Award
Dr. Mical Raz from the program for history of medicine at Tel Aviv University for her project
“Rereading Lobotomy: Crossing Boundaries in the History of Psychosurgery in the United States, 1935 – 1955.”
The Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Dora B. Weiner.
J. Worth Estes Prize
Jonathan Simon for his essay
“Emil Behring’s Medical Culture: From Disinfection to Serotherapy,” Medical History, 51, 2007, 201-218.