Students

This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical science, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph.

The SSHM has recently started a Facebook page and is seeking a postgraduate student editor. We already have one postgraduate editor from the United Kingdom and are particularly interested in recruiting a student to represent other regional interests (eg. Europe, North America, etc.). Ideally, applicants should be in the early stages of their research degrees and intend to be around for at least a couple years.

The AHRC has funded a two-year doctoral training programme to teach the 'Theories and Methods' of projects that connect literature, science and medicine. There will be twenty funded places for doctoral students to apply for their accommodation and travel to each of the six events that comprise this programme.

The winner of the 2008 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize is Mark Honigsbaum, a PhD Candidate at University College London. His essay, 'The Great Dread: Cultural and Psychological Impacts and Responses to the 'Russian' Influenza in the United Kingdom, 1889-93' is indeed a timely one.