SMA awards: 2007 Award Winners
MASA Dissertation Award: Junko Kitanaka for Society in Distress: The Psychiatric Production of Depression in Contemporary Japan
New Millennium Book Award: Sharon Kaufman for And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize: Sophie Day for On the Game
Rivers Prize (Undergraduate): Irit Rasooly for "Planting Healthy Stores in Food Deserts: An Anthropological Study of Obesity, Consumption, and Public Health in East Baltimore"
Charles Hughes Prize (Graduate): Kate Goldade for "'Health is Hard Here' or 'Health for All'?: The Politics of Blame, Gender, and Health Care for Undocumented Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica"
Steven Polgar Prize (Best Article in MAQ, 2007): Robin Root for "'Mixing' as an Ethnoetiology of HIV/AIDS in Malaysia's Multinational Factories"
Career Achievement Award: Ronnie Frankenberg and Margaret Lock
George Foster Memorial Prize in the Practice of Medical Anthropology: Susan Hunter
MASA Mentoring Award: Lenore Manderson
Rudolph Virchow Professional Award (Critical Anthropology of Global Health): Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg for "Intimate Apartheid: Ethnic Dimensions of Habitus among Homeless Heroin Injectors"
Rudolph Virchow Graduate Student Award: Krista Schumacher for "Beyond Cultural Competency: An Analysis of Key Variables Affecting Diabetes Care among Patients at an rrban Indian Health Clinic"
Rudolph Virchow Undergraduate Student Award: Aki Nakanishi: "Protecting Indigenous Medical Knowledge: Confronting Biopiracy and Neo-cultural Imperialism"