The Roy Porter Prize Articles

2008 Mark Honigsbaum (PhD Candidate, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London)
'The Great Dread: Cultural and Psychological Impacts and Reponses to the 'Russian' Influenza in the United Kingdom, 1889-1893'
Roy Porter Memorial Essay Prize
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 2, August 2010, pp. 299-319.

2007 Olivia Weisser (PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University)
'Boils, Pushes, and Wheals: Reading Bumps on the Body in Early Modern England'.
Roy Porter Memorial Essay Prize
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 22, No. 2, August 2009, pp. 321 - 339.

2006 Matthew Smith (PhD Candidate, University of Exeter)
'Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957-80'.
Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 3, December 2008, pp. 541-559.

2005 Beth Linker (PhD Candidate, Yale University)
'Feet for Fighting: Locating Disability and Social Medicine in First World War America'.
Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 20, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 91-109.

2004 Matthew Warner Osborn (PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis)
'Diseased Imaginations: Constructing Delirium Tremens in Philadelphia, 1813-1832'.
Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 2, August 2006, pp. 191-208.

2003 Marianne Samayoa (MA candidate, University of Missouri-St. Louis)
'More Than Quacks: Seeking Medical Care in Late Colonial Latin America'. Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 1, April 2006, pp. 1-18.

Previous Prize Competitions

2002 Jeremy Greene (doctoral candidate MD/PhD Program, History of Science Dep., Harvard University)
‘Therapeutic Infidelities: Noncompliance Enters the Medical Literature, 1955-1975’.
Student Essay Competition.
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 17, No. 3, December 2004, pp. 327-43

2001 Angela Montford (postgraduate research student, Dep. of Medieval History, University of St Andrews)
‘Dangers and Disorders: The Decline of the Dominican Frater Medicus’.
Student Essay Competition.
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 2, August 2003, pp. 169-91.

2000 Christian Bonah
‘'Experimental Rage', the Development of Medical Ethics and the Genesis of Scientific Facts. Ludwig Fleck: An Answer to the Crisis of Modern Medicine in Interwar Germany?’
Millennium Essay Competition.
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 2, August 2002, pp. 187-207.

2000 Lisa W. Smith
‘Reassessing the role of the family: Women's Medical Care in Eighteenth-century England’.
Student Millennium Essay Competition.
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 3, December 2003, pp. 327-42

1999 Susan Broomhall
‘'Women's Little Secrets': Defining the Boundaries of Reproductive Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century’.
Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 1, April 2002, pp. 1-15.

1998 Patricia R. Stokes
‘Pathology, Danger, and Power: Women's and Physicians' Views of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Weimer Germany’.

Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 13, No.3, December 2000, pp.358-80.

1997 Lauren Kassell
‘How to Read Simon Forman's Casebooks: Medicine, Astrology, and Gender in Elizabethan London’.

Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 12, No.1, April 1999, pp.3-18.

1996 Luke Davidson
‘'Identities Ascertained';: British Ophthalmology in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century’.

Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 9, No. 3, December 1996, pp.313-33.

1993 Bernadine Courtwright Barr
‘Entertaining and Instructing the Public: Dr John Zahorsky's 1904 Incubator Institute’.

Published in Social History of Medicine, Vol. 8, No.1, April 1995, pp.17-36.