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American Association for the History of Medicine

Committee Members — 1999–2000

Annual Meetings Committee: William Summers (chair), Rima Apple, Thomas Gariepy, Amalie Kass, and Regina Morantz-Sanchez

Clinician-Historian Committee: Barron Lerner (chair)

Electronic Media Committee: Russell Maulitz (chair), William Helfand, Joel Howell, Edward Morman, David Pearson, and Christine Ruggere

Estes Award Committee: John Parascandola (chair), John Riddle, and John Swann

Finance Committee: William Helfand (chair), Thomas Bonner, and Jeffrey Sturchio

Garrison Lecture Committee: James Bono (chair), James Connor, Jacalyn Duffin, Mary Fissell, and Susan Lederer

Lifetime Achievement Award Committee: John Harley Warner (chair), Ann La Berge, and Nancy Tomes

Local Arrangements Committee: Elizabeth Fee (chair), Inci Bowman, James Cassedy, Carol Clausen, Steven Greenberg, Victoria Harden, Alan Kraut, John Parascandola, and Dale Smith

Newsletter: Dale Smith (editor)

Nominating Committee: Harold Cook (chair), Margaret Humphreys, and Ellen More

Osler Medal Committee: Thomas Huddle (chair), Hughes Evans, Robert Kaiser, Howard Markel, and Keith Wailoo

Pressman Award Committee: Gerald Grob (chair), Gert Brieger, and Rosemary Stevens

Program Committee: Harry Marks (chair), Susan Abrams, Margaret Humphreys, Alan Kraut, Mary Lindemann, Walton Schalick III, and Molly Sutphen

Shryock Medal Committee: Toby Appel (chair), Martha Baldwin, Thomas Broman, Kim Pelis, and Philip Wilson

Welch Medal Committee: Thomas Benedek (chair), Charles Bryan, Ann Carmichael, Jonathon Erlen, and Thomas Huddle

J. Worth Estes Award. The American Association for the History of Medicine announces the inauguration of the Estes Award, established in honor of Dr. J. Worth Estes, and in testimony to his many years of invaluable contributions to the history of medicine. The award will be made annually for the best published article in the history of pharmacology during the previous year, whether appearing in a journal or a book collection of papers. The choice of topic reflects Worth Estes’s long tenure as Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University and his own considerable scholarship in the history of pharmacology.

For the purpose of this award, the history of pharmacology will be broadly defined to include ancient and traditional materia medica, folk medicines, herbal medicines, the pharmaceuticals and medications of the modern era, pharmaceutics, and the like. It shall encompass the discovery of medicaments, basic investigations regarding them, their characteristics and properties, their preparation, and their therapeutic applications.

While the Estes Award Committee will be monitoring relevant journals and books where such papers might appear, they welcome nominations of papers that would be eligible for consideration. The nomination should consist of a letter citing the work nominated, along with a copy of the paper. Nominations should be directed to the Chair of the Committee: Dr. John L. Parascandola, Public Health Service Historian, 18–23 Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

For this first award, candidate articles will be those published in 1998 and 1999. Nominations must be received by the Committee Chair by 15 January 2000.

The first award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, 18–21 May 2000. As a result of a generous contribution in honor of Worth Estes from one of the members of the Association, the award will be accompanied with a check for $500.00.

The Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award. The American Association for the History of Medicine wishes to bring to your attention the Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in Twentieth-Century History of Medicine or Science. This award is given for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical sciences as demonstrated by the completion of a Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph. The Ph.D. must have been completed and the degree granted within the last three years, (i.e., 1996–1999). The application must include a one-page summary of the proposed book; an account (not exceeding two pages) of the work required to make the dissertation publishable, and why; information on interest in publishing it from a specific press, together with any relevant letters from the press; a current curriculum vitae; a letter of support from the candidate’s dissertation advisor, and one additional letter of support. These materials should...