The William H. Welch Medal

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2018     From body to community : venereal disease and society in Baroque Spain by Cristian Berco
2017     Abortion after Roe by Johanna Schoen
2016     Neither donkey nor horse : medicine in the struggle over China's modernity by Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei
2015     Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America by Leslie J. Reagan
2014     Improvising medicine : an African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic by Julie Livingston
2013     Pox : an American history by Michael Willrich
2012     Breathing space : how allergies shape our lives and landscapes by Gregg Mitman
2011     The cigarette century : the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America by Allan M. Brandt
2010
     The collectors of lost souls : turning Kuru scientists into whitemen by Warwick Anderson
2009
     Secrets of women : gender, generation, and the origins of human dissection by Katharine Park
2008    
The conquest of malaria : Italy, 1900-1962 by Frank M. Snowden
2007     Hygienic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China by Ruth Rogaski
2006
    Breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America by Barron Lerner
2005     Dying in the city of the blues : sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health by Keith Wailoo
2004     Time to heal : American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care by Kenneth Ludmerer
2003     The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity by Roy Porter
2002     The gospel of germs : men, women and the microbe in American life by Nancy Tomes
2001     The expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine by Shigehisa Kuriyama
2000     American cardiology : the history of a specialty and its college by W. Bruce Fye
1999     Last resort : psychosurgery and the limits of medicine by Jack D. Pressman
1998     Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany by Mary Lindemann
1997     Trials of an ordinary doctor : Joannes Groenevelt in seventeenth-century London by Harold J. Cook
1996     The private science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald L. Geison
1995     A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1994     Medicine before the plague : practitioners and their patients in the crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 by Michael R. McVaugh
1993     Herophilus : the art of medicine in ancient Alexandria by Heinrich von Staden
1992     Death by migration : Europe’s encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century by Philip Curtin
1991     The therapeutic perspective : medical knowledge and identity in America, 1820-1855 by John Harley Warner
1990     In sickness and in wealth : American hospitals in the twentieth century by Rosemary Stevens
1989     Death in Hamburg : society and politics in the cholera years, 1830-1910 by Richard J. Evans
1988     Hospital life in enlightenment Scotland : care and teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh by Guenter B. Risse
1987     American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860; and Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860 by James H. Cassedy
1986     The state and the mentally ill : a history of the Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, 1830-1920; and Mental institutions in America : social policy to 1875; and Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940 by Gerald N. Grob
1985     Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils : two generations of Italian medical learning by Nancy G. Siraisi
1984     The discovery of insulin by Michael Bliss
1983     Harvey and the Oxford physiologists : scientific ideas and social interaction by Robert Frank
1982     James Harvey Young, for scholarly contributions to the history of medicine
1981     Erna Lesky, for significant contributions to the history of medicine
1980     John Blake, for his valuable scholarly contributions to the history of medicine
1979     The great instauration : science, medicine and reform, 1626-1660 by Charles Webster
1978     Claude Bernard and animal chemistry : the emergence of a scientist by Frederick L. Holmes
1977     Lester S. King, "for his scholarly contributions to the history of medicine"
1976     Addison and the white corpuscles : an aspect of nineteenth-century biology; and Mind and body in eighteenth-century medicine : a study based on Jerome Gaub’s De regimine mentis by Lelland J. Rather; and for "his important continuing studies in the history of medicine"
1975     George W. Corner, for invaluable contributions
1974     Walter Pagel, for extensive and most valuable publications
1973     Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body ; translated from the Greek and with a commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May
1972     Medicine at the Paris hospital, 1794-1848 by Erwin H. Ackerknecht
1971     Charles Donald O'Malley, (posthumously) for scholarly contributions
1970     No award
1969     The cholera years, the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 by Charles Rosenberg
1968     Tom Rivers : reflections on a life in medicine and science; an oral history memoir, prepared by Saul Benison
1967     Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology by Howard B. Adelman
1966     John Morgan, continental doctor by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
1965     No award
1964     No award
1963     Saul Jarcho, for scholarly contributions
1962     The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France by Genevieve Miller
1961     George Rosen, for contributions to the social history of medicine
1960     Richard H. Shyrock, for scholarly contributions
1959     No award
1958     The bubonic plague and England : an essay in the history of preventive medicine by Charles F. Mullett
1957     No award
1956     Letters of Benjamin Rush, edited by Lyman Henry Butterfield
1955     No award
1954     The life and times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of Bologna, 1545-1599. With a documented study of the scientific and cultural life of Bologna in the sixteenth century, by Martha Teach Gnudi and Jerome Pierce Webster
1953     Erwin H. Ackerknecht, for scholarly contributions
1952     Owsei Temkin, for scholarly contributions
1951     No award
1950     Henry E. Sigerist, for scholarly contributions