Jackson Prize
JHMAS Announces 2007 Jackson Prize Winner
The editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is pleased to announce the winner of the fifth annual Stanley Jackson award for the best paper in the journal appearing in the preceding three years. The prize committee chose: Nicolas Rasmussen, "Making the First Anti-depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929-1950." (61:3, July 2006)
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About the Jackson Prize
The Jackson Prize was created in the honor of Dr. Stanley W. Jackson (1920-2000). Dr. Jackson was a former editor of the journal, president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, and a distinguished professor of psychiatry and medical history at Yale Medical School. He was the author of numerous works in the history of medicine, including Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing (1999).
The Jackson Prize is given for a paper published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. The prize of $500 is awarded yearly by a committee appointed by the editor for the best paper that appeared in the journal in the previous 3 years.
Previous Winners
2006: Gary Belkin, "Brain Death and the Historical Understanding of Bioethics." (58:3, July 2003).
2005: Sharon M. Leon, "'Hopelessly Entangled in Nordic Pre-suppositions': Catholic Participation in the American Eugenics Society in the 1920s." (59:1, January 2004).
2004: Suzanne Junod and Lara Mark, "Women's Trails: The Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive Pill in the United States and Great Britain" (57:2, April 2002).
2003: David Geier and Mark Geier, "The True Story of Pertussis Vaccination: A Sordid Legacy?" (57:3, July 2002).