SMA awards: 2009 Award Winners
Career Awards
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Career Achievement Award: Charles Leslie
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George Foster Memorial Prize: Noel Chrisman
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MASA Mentoring Award: Carole Browner
Book and Dissertation Prizes
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Eileen Basker Memorial Prize: Janelle Taylor (2008) The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction, Rutgers University Press.
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New Millennium Book Award: Athena McLean (2007) Central Michigan University, for The Person in Dementia: A Study of Nursing Home Care in the US, Broadview Press.
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MASA Dissertation Award: Dr. Sera Lewise Young - "A Biocultural Study of the Relationship Between Pica and Anemia" (Cornell University, 2008)
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Rivers Prize (Undergraduate): No award given in 2009
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Charles Hughes Prize (Graduate): No award given in 2009
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Steven Polgar Prize (Best Article in MAQ, 2008): Melissa Park - "Making Scenes: Imaginative Practices of a Child with Autism in a Sensory Integration-Based Therapy Session. MAQ 22(3):234-256.
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Rudolph Virchow Award (Critical Anthropology of Global Health):
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Professional: Sherine Hamdy - When the State and Your Kidneys Fail: Political Ecologies in an Egyptian Dialysis Ward
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Graduate Student: Ari Samsky - Medical Humanitarianism without Humans: How International Drug Donations Reshape Health, Disease, and Local Law
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Undergraduate Student: Serena Stein - Health at the Margins: Distress and Illness after the 2005 Mudslide in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
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