Medical History William Bynum Essay Prize
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A Strong Field and a Deserving Winner
Medical History is delighted to announce the winner of the 2014 William Bynum Prize: Clare Leeming-Latham’s wonderful essay titled ‘Unravelling the “tangled web”: Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Britain, 1940–70’. We are also pleased to announce a set of joint runners up: Elisa González (‘Nurturing the Citizens of the Future: Milk Stations and Child Nutrition in Puerto Rico, 1929–60’) and Anne...
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The 2015 Medical History William Bynum Prize attracted a strong field of 12 entries, of which at least half are clearly of publishable quality. The four-person committee deliberated carefully on the essays. A small cluster stood out, necessitating a second round of deliberations. First prize was awarded to the essay by Lori Jones of the University of Ottawa, entitled ‘When Medical Texts Double ...
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The competition for the first William Bynum Prize 2013 was intense; four of the papers submitted for consideration have been deemed worthy of publication on the basis of a demanding peer review process. Our Prize Committee, which consisted of five inspirational colleagues who consistently sacrificed a lot of their time despite having busy work-schedules, included Dr Jeremy Greene of Johns Hopki...
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This paper explores evolving conceptions and depictions of the human genome among human and medical geneticists during the postwar period. Historians of science and medicine have shown significant interest in the use of informational approaches in postwar genetics, which treat the genome as an expansive digital data set composed of three billion DNA nucleotides. Since the 1950s, however, geneti...
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