Melbern G. Glasscock Humanities Center, Texas A & M, for Dying in the City of the Blues best work of interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. – 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, Dying in the City of the Blues best non-fiction work on race and social justice. – 2002 for Dying in the City of the American Political Science Association Book Award Blues (Best Book on Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States, Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics) 2002 New Jersey Council for the Humanities for Dying in the City of the Blues (Honor Book Award) 2002 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research ($330,000 Award for project on as Policy: The Social Negotiation of Pain in “Pain Medicine, Culture, and Public Policy in Post World War II America”) 2001 School of Medicine Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Medical Education (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Medicine) 1999 James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science ($1,000,000 award for multi-year, multi-disciplinary project: Body in Parts: “The Disease and the Biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century”) 1997 Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement (University of North Carolina Research Award for by junior “achievement professors or recently tenured faculty.”) 1996 Arthur Viseltear Book Prize, for Drawing Blood, presented by the Medical Care Section of American Public Health Association 1995 Shannon Award, NIH. Research award from National Center for Human Genome Research (with colleagues in Social Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill) OTHER NAMED LECTURESHIPS AND PRESENTATIONS October 2013 and Cultural Change: Looking Back and Health: “Health Seeing Ahead,” What’s Next Conversations with Lecture for staff, program officers, and Pioneers” (Invited leadership of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) October 2013 Cancer Crossed the Color Health Sciences University “How Line,” Oregon (American Cancer Society Harvey Baker Lecture) October 2011 Medicine and Conservative Care: The Cultural Politic of Pain in “Between Liberal Ohio State University) C. Burnham Lecture, America” (John April 2010 Politics of Pain: Liberal Medicine, Conservative Care, and the Governance of “The Relief in America since the Keynote address H. Garrison Lecture, 1950s” (Fielding at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine)
Melbern G. Glasscock Humanities Center, Texas A & M, for Dying in the City of the Blues – best work of interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, Dying in the City of the Blues – best non-fiction work on race and social justice. 2002 American Political Science Association Book Award for Dying in the City of the Blues (Best Book on Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States, Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics) 2002 New Jersey Council for the Humanities for Dying in the City of the Blues (Honor Book Award) 2002 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research ($330,000 Award for project on “Pain as Policy: The Social Negotiation of Pain in Medicine, Culture, and Public Policy in Post World War II America”) 2001 School of Medicine Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Medical Education (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Medicine) 1999 James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science ($1,000,000 award for multi-year, multi-disciplinary project: “The Body in Parts: Disease and the Biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century”) 1997 Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement (University of North Carolina Research Award for “achievement by junior professors or recently tenured faculty.”) 1996 Arthur Viseltear Book Prize, for Drawing Blood, presented by the Medical Care Section of American Public Health Association 1995 Shannon Award, NIH. Research award from National Center for Human Genome Research (with colleagues in Social Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill) OTHER NAMED LECTURESHIPS AND PRESENTATIONS October 2013 “Health and Cultural Change: Looking Back and Seeing Ahead,” What’s Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers” (Invited Lecture for staff, program officers, and leadership of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) October 2013 “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line,” Oregon Health Sciences University (American Cancer Society Harvey Baker Lecture) October 2011 “Between Liberal Medicine and Conservative Care: The Cultural Politic of Pain in America” (John C. Burnham Lecture, Ohio State University) April 2010 “The Politics of Pain: Liberal Medicine, Conservative Care, and the Governance of Relief in America since the 1950s” (Fielding H. Garrison Lecture, Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine)