SMA awards: 2005 Award Winners
Basker Prize: Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, João Biehl
Rivers Prize: "Postpartum Cases: Tadoka and Mental Health," Amy Saltzman
Hughes Prize: "Governing Adherence: Medications, HIV, and Power," Jennifer Liu
Polgar Prize: "'Change Yourself and the Whole World Will Become Kinder': Russian Activists for Reproductive Health and the Limits of Claims Making for Women," Michelle Rivkin-Fish
Career Achievement Award: George Foster
Practicing Anthropology Award (Presented at the 2005 SMA/SfAA meetings in Santa Fe, NM): Merrill Singer
Mentor Award: Mark Nichter
CAR Most Enduring Edited Collection Award: Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions, Edited by Lynn Morgan and Meredith Michaels (1999)
CAR Best Current Edited Collection: Consuming Motherhood, Edited by Janelle Taylor, Linda Layne, and Danielle Wozniak (2004)
CAR Graduate Student Prize: "Women Do What They Want": Family Planning and Islam in Northern Tanzania,” Susi Krehbeil
Rudolf Virchow Award, Professional Category: Two awards were given this year: “Pearls of the Antilles? Public Health in Haiti and Cuba, by Paul Farmer and Arachu Castro; and, “The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil,” by João Biehl
Rudolf Virchow Award, Graduate Student Category: “Everyday Violence in Northern Uganda: War, AIDS, and Interventions,” by Michael Westerhaus