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Each year the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) offers an awards competition for scholarship in the history of medicine. There are six different contests. Please see the below descriptions for details.
Osler Medal Essay Contest, 2011. The William Osler Medal is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written by a student enrolled in a school of medicine or osteopathy in the United States or Canada. First awarded in 1942, the medal commemorates Sir William Osler, who stimulated an interest in the humanities among medical students and physicians. The writer of the winning essay will be invited to attend the 2011 AAHM meeting, April 28–May 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Osler Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the Association.
All students who are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy, or are graduates of the class of 2010, are eligible. The essay must have been written while the entrant was a student in good standing. Students are not eligible to compete for the Osler Medal if, by the closing date of the competition, they have completed at least one full year of graduate training in history, the history of science or medicine, or the humanities or social sciences. Medical students who have been enrolled in a graduate program in history or a related discipline should submit their essays to the Shryock competition. No student should submit an essay to both competitions in the same year. Essays that have been awarded an Honorable Mention are not eligible for resubmission.
Essays may pertain to the historical development of a contemporary medical problem, or to a topic within the health sciences related to a discrete period of the past, and should demonstrate either original research or an unusual appreciation and understanding of the problems discussed. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be entirely the work of one contestant.
Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Osler Medal Committee chair: Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D., Departments of History and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan. E-mail: jhowell@umich.edu. Entries must be e-mailed to the chair no later than January 15, 2011.
Shryock Medal Essay Contest, 2011. Graduate students in the United States and Canada are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of medicine. The award is given for an outstanding, unpublished essay by a single author on any topic in the history of medicine. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be the result of original research or show an unusual appreciation and understanding of problems in the history of medicine. In particular, the committee will judge essays on the quality of writing, appropriate use of sources, and ability to address themes of historical significance.
The winner will be invited to attend the 2011 meeting of the Association, April 28–May 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses for the winner will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Shryock Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM.
This competition is open to students enrolled in a graduate program in any discipline, including medicine, in the United States or Canada at the time of submission. No student should submit an essay to both the Shryock Medal and Osler Medal competitions in the same year. Essays that have been awarded an Honorable Mention are not eligible for resubmission.
Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Shryock Medal Committee Chair: Alexandra Stern, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Center for the History of Medicine, 100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0725 (e-mail: amstern@umich.edu). Essays must be postmarked or submitted electronically via e-mail (which is the preferred method of submission) no later than January, 15 2011.
J. Worth Estes Award, 2011. 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 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 2009 and 2010. Papers in languages other than English should be accompanied by a translation or detailed precis. Nominations should be directed to the J. Worth Estes Award Committee Chair, John Swann, The FDA History Office, Room 3322, White Oak Building 32, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20993 (e-mail: john.swann@fda.hhs.gov). Nominations must be received by January 15, 2011.
The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 1, 2011. 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.
Jack D. Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in
20th Century History of Medicine or Science. This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical science, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph.
The Ph.D. must have been completed and the degree granted within the last five years (i.e., 2006–2010). The application must include a curriculum vitae, the dissertation abstract, a one-page summary of the proposed book; a description (not exceeding two pages) of the work to be undertaken for publication; and two letters of support from faculty members knowledgeable about the applicant’s dissertation. Electronic copies of materials are preferred.
The Award will be presented at the 2011 meeting of the Association, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 1. The application, including all supporting materials, must be postmarked by December 31, 2010, and addressed to the Chair of the Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Committee, Erika Dyck, Ph.D., Department of History, 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada (e-mail: erika.dyck@usask.edu). More information may be obtained from the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org) or from the Committee Chair.
Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011. This award was established in 1988; the first recipients were Saul Jarcho, Lester King, and Owsei Temkin. The award is given annually to a member of the Association who has retired from regular institutional affiliation or practice, with a distinguished record of support of the history of medicine over many years, and who has made continuing scholarly contributions of a distinguished nature. The Lifetime Achievement Award Committee welcomes nominations for the award, which should include one or two paragraphs of explanation and support for the nomination. For complete application details and additional information about the Award, please see the AAHM Web site: www.histmed.org.
William H. Welch Medal, 2011. The William H. Welch Award is named in honor of a major American figure in the history of medicine and public health, who was among the first faculty at the Johns Hopkins medical school. The Medal was first presented in 1950, to Henry Sigerist, and is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award. Hence, books published during 2005–2009 inclusively will be eligible for the 2011 Medal. Previously nominated books should be re-nominated each year that they are eligible; they will not be considered automatically. The Medal will be presented at the next annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 1, 2011. The chair of the Welch Medal Committee, Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., welcomes suggestions of books to consider for the award. To nominate a book, contact Dr. Wailoo at Department of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1017 (e-mail: kwailoo@princeton.edu). Deadline for nominations: October 31, 2010.
Ryan Fagan
University of Kansas
2025 Robinson Bldg
913-588-7087
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
Each year the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) offers an awards competition for scholarship in the history of medicine. There are six different contests. Please see the below descriptions for details.
Osler Medal Essay Contest, 2011. The William Osler Medal is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written by a student enrolled in a school of medicine or osteopathy in the United States or Canada. First awarded in 1942, the medal commemorates Sir William Osler, who stimulated an interest in the humanities among medical students and physicians. The writer of the winning essay will be invited to attend the 2011 AAHM meeting, April 28–May 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Osler Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the Association.
All students who are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy, or are graduates of the class of 2010, are eligible. The essay must have been written while the entrant was a student in good standing. Students are not eligible to compete for the Osler Medal if, by the closing date of the competition, they have completed at least one full year of graduate training in history, the history of science or medicine, or the humanities or social sciences. Medical students who have been enrolled in a graduate program in history or a related discipline should submit their essays to the Shryock competition. No student should submit an essay to both competitions in the same year. Essays that have been awarded an Honorable Mention are not eligible for resubmission.
Essays may pertain to the historical development of a contemporary medical problem, or to a topic within the health sciences related to a discrete period of the past, and should demonstrate either original research or an unusual appreciation and understanding of the problems discussed. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be entirely the work of one contestant.
Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Osler Medal Committee chair: Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D., Departments of History and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan. E-mail: jhowell@umich.edu. Entries must be e-mailed to the chair no later than January 15, 2011.
Shryock Medal Essay Contest, 2011. Graduate students in the United States and Canada are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of medicine. The award is given for an outstanding, unpublished essay by a single author on any topic in the history of medicine. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be the result of original research or show an unusual appreciation and understanding of problems in the history of medicine. In particular, the committee will judge essays on the quality of writing, appropriate use of sources, and ability to address themes of historical significance.
The winner will be invited to attend the 2011 meeting of the Association, April 28–May 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses for the winner will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Shryock Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM.
This competition is open to students enrolled in a graduate program in any discipline, including medicine, in the United States or Canada at the time of submission. No student should submit an essay to both the Shryock Medal and Osler Medal competitions in the same year. Essays that have been awarded an Honorable Mention are not eligible for resubmission.
Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Shryock Medal Committee Chair: Alexandra Stern, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Center for the History of Medicine, 100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0725 (e-mail: amstern@umich.edu). Essays must be postmarked or submitted electronically via e-mail (which is the preferred method of submission) no later than January, 15 2011.
J. Worth Estes Award, 2011. 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 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 2009 and 2010. Papers in languages other than English should be accompanied by a translation or detailed precis. Nominations should be directed to the J. Worth Estes Award Committee Chair, John Swann, The FDA History Office, Room 3322, White Oak Building 32, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20993 (e-mail: john.swann@fda.hhs.gov). Nominations must be received by January 15, 2011.
The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 1, 2011. 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.
Jack D. Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in
20th Century History of Medicine or Science. This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical science, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph.
The Ph.D. must have been completed and the degree granted within the last five years (i.e., 2006–2010). The application must include a curriculum vitae, the dissertation abstract, a one-page summary of the proposed book; a description (not exceeding two pages) of the work to be undertaken for publication; and two letters of support from faculty members knowledgeable about the applicant’s dissertation. Electronic copies of materials are preferred.
The Award will be presented at the 2011 meeting of the Association, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 1. The application, including all supporting materials, must be postmarked by December 31, 2010, and addressed to the Chair of the Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Committee, Erika Dyck, Ph.D., Department of History, 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada (e-mail: erika.dyck@usask.edu). More information may be obtained from the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org) or from the Committee Chair.
Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011. This award was established in 1988; the first recipients were Saul Jarcho, Lester King, and Owsei Temkin. The award is given annually to a member of the Association who has retired from regular institutional affiliation or practice, with a distinguished record of support of the history of medicine over many years, and who has made continuing scholarly contributions of a distinguished nature. The Lifetime Achievement Award Committee welcomes nominations for the award, which should include one or two paragraphs of explanation and support for the nomination. For complete application details and additional information about the Award, please see the AAHM Web site: www.histmed.org.
William H. Welch Medal, 2011. The William H. Welch Award is named in honor of a major American figure in the history of medicine and public health, who was among the first faculty at the Johns Hopkins medical school. The Medal was first presented in 1950, to Henry Sigerist, and is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award. Hence, books published during 2005–2009 inclusively will be eligible for the 2011 Medal. Previously nominated books should be re-nominated each year that they are eligible; they will not be considered automatically. The Medal will be presented at the next annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 1, 2011. The chair of the Welch Medal Committee, Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., welcomes suggestions of books to consider for the award. To nominate a book, contact Dr. Wailoo at Department of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1017 (e-mail: kwailoo@princeton.edu). Deadline for nominations: October 31, 2010.
Ryan Fagan
University of Kansas
2025 Robinson Bldg
913-588-7087
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
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