Roy Porter Prize Winners
The following articles are past winners of the Roy Porter essay prize. Click on the titles to read these articles FREE online:
2022: Anna Weerasinghe (Johns Hopkins University)
‘In the Kitchen with Brianda Jaoa: Tacit Practices and Technologies of Healing in Garcia de Orta’s Coloquios (1563)’
Not yet published in Social History of Medicine
Runners-up:
Vesna Curlic (University of Edinburgh)
‘Returned to their Native Air: Migration, Disability and Climate in Britain, 1880-1905’
Silvia Maria Marchiori (University of Cambridge)
‘Bridging Ancient and Humanist Medicine: The Early Medieval Manuscript of a Greek Speaking Latin Monk’
2021: Martijn van der Meer, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
‘Sown without care: Dutch eugenicists and their call for optimising development conditions, 1919-1939’
Not yet published in Social History of Medicine
2020: John Beales, Keele University and the Imperial War Museums
‘Of One Blood?’ Challenging perceptions of wartime blood donor motivation and behaviour: a case study of Bristol and the South West, 1939-1945
2019: Elizabeth Evens, University College London (UCL)
Playboy Yearbooks and the backlash to women’s increased presence in the U.S. medical schools
Not yet published in Social History of Medicine
2018: Mateusz Zatonski, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Lighting up under the “No Smoking” sign: tobacco control regulation in Communist Poland*
Not yet published in Social History of Medicine
2017: Kit Heintzman, Harvard University
Bedrooms and Barnyards: Two Medicines in Revolutionary France*
Not yet published in Social History of Medicine
2016: Spencer Weinreich, Princeton University
How (Not) to Survive a Plague: The Theology of Fleeing Disease in Sixteenth-century England
2015: Rebecca Whiteley, University College London
Figuring Pictures and Picturing Figures: Images of the Pregnant Body and the Unborn Child in England, 1540–c.1680
2014:Erica Storm, Stanford University
Gilding the Pill: The Sensuous Consumption of Patent Medicines, 1815–1841
2013: Julie Hipperson, King's College London
Professional entrepreneurs: Women veterinary surgeons as small business owners in interwar Britain
2012: Caitlin Mahar, The University of Melbourne
Easing the Passing: R v. Adams and Terminal Care in Postwar Britain
2011: Bradley Matthys Moore, University of Wisconsin
For the People’s Health: Ideology, Medical Authority, and Hygienic Science in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1952-62
2010: Seth LeJacq, Johns Hopkins University
The Bounds of Domestic Healing: Medical Recipes, Storytelling and Surgery in Early Modern England
2008: Mark Honigsbaum, University College London
The Great Dread: Cultural and Psychological Impacts and Reponses to the 'Russian' Influenza in the United Kingdom, 1889-1893
2007: Olivia Weisser, Johns Hopkins University
Boils, Pushes, and Wheals: Reading Bumps on the Body in Early Modern England
2006: Matthew Smith, University of Exeter
Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957-80
2005: Beth Linker, Yale University
Feet for Fighting: Locating Disability and Social Medicine in First World War America
2004: Matthew Warner Osborn, University of California, Davis
Diseased Imaginations: Constructing Delirium Tremens in Philadelphia, 1813-1832
2003: Marianne Samayoa, University of Missouri-St. Louis
More Than Quacks: Seeking Medical Care in Late Colonial New Spain