Congratulations to the 2021 AAHM award winners honored on May 14, 2021 during the 94th annual meeting of the Association held virtually.
William Osler Medal Honorable Mention: Aneek Patel of New York University Grossman School of Medicine, for his essay, “Roots of Resistance: The Slave Midwife as an Agent of Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South.”
William Osler Medal: Margo A. Peyton of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for her essay, “Segregated in Life and Death: Johns Hopkins and the Racial Science of Tuberculosis.”
Richard H. Shryock Medal: Gina Surita of Princeton University Department of History, for her essay, “Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Concept of Hormone-Dependent Cancers, 1940-1990.”
Fielding H. Garrison Lecturer for 2022: Janet L. Golden, Professor Emerita Rutgers University
J. Worth Estes Prize: Beatriz Puentes-Ballesteros, “Chocolate in China: Interweaving cultural histories of an imperfectly connected world,” in Harold Cook (ed.), Translation at Word: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age (Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020)
Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in 20th Century History of Medicine or Biomedical Sciences Award: Dr. Heidi Morefield, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University to support her Book Project, “Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health.”
George Rosen Prize: Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen for their book, The Oxford Handbook of Disability History published by Oxford University Press, 2018. William H. Welch Medal: Benjamin Breen for his book, The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award: Susan M. Reverby Congratulations to all our winners.