Shryock Essay Medalists
1984
John Harley Warner (Harvard University), The selective transport of medical knowledge: antebellum American physicians and Parisian medical therapeutics
1985
Jack D. Pressman (Pennsylvania), Sufficient promise: John F. Fulton and the development of psychosurgery
1986
Sheila M. Penney (Dalhousie University), Nova Scotia, 1900-1914: a case study of the sanatorium solution to tuberculosis
1987
Shigehisa Kuriyama (University of New Hampshire), Rethinking the history of anatomy: the origins of Greek dissection
Honorable Mention: Patricia A. Watson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), The influence of iatrochemistry on the preacher-physicians of Puritan New England
Honorable Mention: Micaela Sullivan-Fowler (Loyola University), Tyrell's "Internal Baths": the enema, autointoxication, and quackery in the early twentieth century
1988
Steven Robert Wilf (Yale University), Anatomy and Punishment in late eighteenth-century New York
Honorable Mention: Carol Summers (Johns Hopkins University), Medical Evangelism: the Church Missionar Society in Buganda, 1878-1905
1989
Louise Breen (University of Connecticut), Cotton Mather, the "Angelical Ministry," and inoculation
Honorable Mention: Kristie Lindenmeyer Dick (University of Cincinnati), Physicians and birth control: a Cincinnati episode, 1924-1931
1990
Paul Niermann (Temple)
Honorable Mention: Keith Wailoo (University of Pennsylvania)
1991
David S. Barnes (Berkeley)
Honorable Mention: Margaret L. Grimshaw (San Diego State University)
1992
Barron H. Lerner (University of Washington)
1993
Elizabeth Haiken (University of California, Berkeley)
Honorable Mention: Caroline J. Acker (University of California, San Francisco), The addict and the psychiatrist: Lawrence Kolb and the psychiatric theory of addiction
Honorable Mention: Alice Domurat Dreger (Indiana University), Doubtful sex and doubtful status: hermaphrodites and doctors in Victorian England
1994
Walton O. Schalick, III (Johns Hopkins University), "Add one part pharmacy to one part surgery and one part medicine: Jean de Saint-Amand and the development of medical pharmacology in late thirteenth-century Paris"
Honorable Mention: Walter J. Vanast (University of Wisconsin), Our girls have left us for the better land: the relationship of mission policy to tuberculosis mortality at a northern Canadian Indian boarding school, 1924-25
1995
Alexandra M. Lord (University of Wisconsin)
1996
Ronald Rudy Higgens-Evenson (University of Oregon)
1997
Victoria Sweet (University of California, San Franscisco), Re-reading medieval medicine: Hildegard of Bingen and the greening of the Middle Ages
Honorable Mention: Rachel I Rosner (York University, Ontario; and Harvard University), The mind-body problem in German medicine, 1890-1910
1998
Erika Wojcuik (Princeton)
1999
Karen Kruse Thomas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Yelling 'Socialized medicine': race, national health policy, and the medical profession in North Carolina, 1940-1945 Honorable mention to Arthur Daemmerich (Cornell University), A tale of two experts: thalidomide and political engagement in the United States and West Germany
2000
No award
2001
Lara Freidenfelds (Harvard University), Henry Knowles Beecher's 'Ethics and Clinical Research' Honorable Mention: Carole Emberton (Northwestern University), To produce an A1 nation: the frontier nursing service, women's health, and the problem of the South, 1920-1930
2002
Amir Afkhami (Yale), Infection, Jihad and Achieving the Virtues of Civilization: The Social Impact of the 1889-1892 Cholera and Influenza Epidemics in Iran." Honorable Mention: David Herzberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Wonder Drugs or Controlled Substances?: Theories of Addiction and Minor Tranquilizers in America, 1955-1975 and Sabine Marx (Carnegie Mellon University), The Rise of Scientific Medicine? Doctors, Patients and the State in Germany, 1880-1914
2003
Kevin T. Grau (Indiana University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science), 'A peculiar and domestic Scourge to our English infants': English medicine and the representation of rickets Honorable Mention: Gerard J. Fitzgerald (Carnegie Mellon Univeristy), The Bugaboo of Bugville: the Westinghouse sterilamp and the technological challenge of airborne disease, 1930-1947 and Gretchen Krueger (Yale University), 'Death be not proud': children, families, and cancer in postwar America
2004
Jeremy Greene (Harvard University, Department of the History of Science) "Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension" Honorable mention to David G. Schuster (University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History) "Personalizing illness in the shadow of modernity: S. Weir Mitchell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Amelia Gere Mason, and a Reassessment of Neurasthenia, 1870-1914"
2005
Alisha Rankin (Harvard University), – “Duchess, Heal Thyself: Recipes, Physicians, and the Diseases of Elisabeth of Rochlitz (1502-57) Honorable mentions to: Andrew Ray Ruis (University of Wisconsin) – “Bringing the Laboratory to the Street: The Bacteriological Diagnosis of Diphtheria in Late Nineteenth-Century New York”and Miriam Gross (University of California, San Diego) – “Healthy Children, Mighty Nation: Synthesizing Western and Chinese Medicine in Late Qing Health and Morality Books”
2006
Darcy Hughes Heuring (Northwestern University), "All tainted as they are: Wet Nurses, Medical Men and Social Reform in Victorian Britain, 1858-1872." Honorable mentioon Matthew Gambino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Voice of the Patients: Mental Illness, Institutional Newspapers and Patient Life at St Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, DC) in the Twentieth Century"
2007
Dea H. Boster (U. of Michigan) "An "epeleptick" Bondswoman: Fits, Slavery, and Power in the Antebellum South"; honorable mention went to Jennifer Clark (Harvard), Lou Gehrig's Disease.
2008
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."