awards: other prizes awarded to medical anthropologists
Helman, Cecil, BBC "Book of the Week", for Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine's Frontline (Hammersmith Press, 2006). The book willl be serialized and broadcast nationally on BBC Radio from March 6-10, 2006.
Gay Becker, Robert B. Textor and Family Award for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, 2002 for her book, The Elusive Embryo: How Men and Women Approach New Reproductive Technologies (2000).
Other medical anthropologists who have received the Textor Award include Setha Low (2000).
Arthur Kleinman, Franz Boas Award for Distinguished Service to Anthropology, 2002
Other medical anthropologists who have received the Franz Boas award include Benjamin D. Paul (1994), Charles Leslie (1992), and George M. Foster (1980).
Susan Orpett Long has been awarded the 2006 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize by the Society for East Asian Anthropology for her book, Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life (University of Hawaii Press, 2005).
The Endangered Self: Managing the Social Risks of HIV (2000) edited by Elisa J. Sobo (UC-San Diego) and Gill Green, (U of Essex), was awarded the “Medicine & People” award in San Diego on May 10, 2001.
Lenore Manderson, Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship, 2001
Bert
Pelto, Malinowski award, 2002 (see image)
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Daryl B. Somma (Boston U) won the first annual Bioethics Interest Group (BIG) 2001 graduate student paper contest with her paper, “The Ethical Implications of Clinical Trials on Vertical HIV/AIDS Transmission: A Feminist Perspective.”
Winners of the Wellcome Medal for Research in Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems
Medical Anthropologist Margaret Mead Award winners
2001 Mimi Nichter
1999 Paul Farmer
1997 Philippe Bourgois
1993 Leo Chavez
1990 Wenda Ruth Trevathan
1989 Mark Nichter
1987 Myra Bluebond-Langner
1986 Jill E Korbin
1985 Susan C M Scrimshaw
1984 Sue E Estroff
1981 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
1980 Brigitte Jordan