New Millennium Book Award

Past Prize Recipients[i]

2019
Omar Dewachi.
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq

2017
Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs.
Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice.

2017
Harris Solomon
Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India.

2015
Cheryl Mattingly (University of Southern California)
Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

2015 Honorable Mention
Vincanne Adams (University of California, San Francisco)
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

2015 Honorable Mention
Susan Reynolds Whyte et al (University of Copenhagen)
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

2013
Seth Holmes (University of California Berkeley)
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

2013
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life

2011
Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker (UC Santa Cruz, University of Washington)
Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report

2009
Athena McLean (Central Michigan University)
The Person in Dementia: A Study of Nursing Home Care in the US

2008
Lesley A. Sharp (Barnard College)
Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self

2007
Sharon Kaufman
And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

2006
Adriana Petryna
Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl

 

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