2006 Matthew Smith (PhD Candidate, University of Exeter), 'Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957-80'. Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay
To be published in Social History of Medicine

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.

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.

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