J. Worth Estes Prize Winners

2011
Scott Podolsky and Jeremy Greene "Keeping Modern in Medicine: Pharmaceutical Promotion and Physician Education in Postwar America," Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2009): 331-378.

2010
Patrick Wallis Consumption, Retailing, and Medicine in Early-Modern London” (The Economic History Review 61.1 [February 2008]: 26-53).

2009
Elaine Leong, for “Making Medicines in the Early Modern Household” (Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 [Spring 2008] 145-168)

2008
Jonathan Simon for his essay “Emil Behring’s Medical Culture: From Disinfection to Serotherapy,” Medical History, 51, 2007, 201-218.

2007
Nicholas Rasmussen, " Making the first Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine 1929-1950", Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Science 61:3 (July 2006) 288-323.

2006
Stephen Snelders, Charles Kaplan, and Toine Pieters, "On Cannabis, Chloral Hydrate, and Career Cycles of Psychotropic Drugs in Medicine," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 80:1(Spring 2006): 95-114.

2005
Londa Schiebinger, “Feminist History of Colonial Science,” Hypatia, 19 (Winter 2004): 233-254.


2004
Paulo A. Porto , "Summus atque felicissimus salium: the medical relevance of the Liquor alkahest," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76 (2002), 1-29.


2003
Christiane Sinding, "Making the Unit of Insulin: Standards, Clinical Work, and Industry, 1920-1925," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76 (2002), 231-270.

2002
Jacalyn M. Duffin, "Poisoning the Spindle: Serendipity and the Discovery of Anti-Tumor Properties of the Vinca Alkaloids," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 17 (2000), 155-192.

2001
Leo B. Slater, "Industry and Academy: The Synthesis of Steroids," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30 (2000), 442-480.

2000
Victoria Sweet: "Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Medieval Medicine," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999):381-403.

 

 

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