The J. Worth Estes Prize
This award was established in honor of J. Worth Estes, M.D., in recognition of his many years of invaluable contributions to the American Association for the History of Medicine and to scholarship in the history of medicine. The award is made annually for the best published paper in the history of pharmacology during the previous two years, whether appearing in a journal or a book collection of papers. The choice of topic reflects Worth Estes’s long tenure as Professor of 700 news and events Bull. Hist. Med., 2008, 82 Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University and his own scholarship in the history of pharmacology.
For the purpose of this award, the history of pharmacology will be defined broadly to include ancient and traditional materia medica, folk medicines, herbal medicines, the pharmaceuticals and medications of the modern era, pharmaceutics, and the like. It shall encompass the discovery of medicaments, basic investigations about them, their characteristics and properties, their preparation and marketing, and their therapeutic applications.
While the committee will be monitoring relevant journals and books where such papers might appear, they welcome nominations of papers that would be eligible for consideration. The nomination should consist of a letter citing the work nominated along with a copy of the paper. For the current award, candidate papers will be those published in 2007 and
2008. Papers in languages other than English should be accompanied by a translation or detailed precis.
Nominations should be directed to the Chair of the Committee,
Jan McTavish, Alcorn State University,
Department of Social Sciences,
Lorman, MS, 39096
mctavish@alcorn.edu
Nominations must be received by the Committee Chair by 15 January 2009.
The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Cleveland, Ohio, 23–26 April 2009. As a result of a generous contribution in honor of Worth Estes from a member of the Association, the award will be accompanied by a $500 check