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> Dear All,
>
> I am on the prize committee for this award, which is chaired by
> Carolyn Sargent, and I know lots of you have either written or can
> recommend nominees for this year's 20th anniversary competition of
> the Eileen Basker Prize (see details below). I hope you will
> forward this to people you know who might be interested, and
> publicise this important award which supports a distinctive
> tradition of scholarship on gender and health.
>
> Sarah (Franklin)
>
> Reminder!!! Please don't forget to nominate for this year's
> Eileen Basker Memorial Prize For Studies in Gender and Health
> http://www.medanthro.net/awards/basker.html
> DUE DATE 30 June 2007
> This prize was established by the Society for Medical Anthropology
> to promote excellence in research on gender and health. It is made
> annually to scholars from any discipline or nation, for a specific
> book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced within the
> preceding three years. The Prize is announced publicly during the
> Society for Medical Anthropology business meeting, held during the
> annual American Anthropological Association meetings, and winners
> receive a $500-$1000 cash award and plaque. Nominations are
> invited from one or more individuals (not organizations) in the
> form of a letter of nomination verifying the impact
> of the particular work on the field. Self-nomination is not
> permitted, and works submitted without an accompanying letter of
> nomination cannot be considered. Publishers of nominated books are
> expected to supply three copies of the relevant work to the Prize
> Committee. Enquiries and nominations should be sent to the chair
> of the Basker Prize Committee: Dr. Carolyn Sargent, Department of
> Anthropology, SMU, Dallas, Texas, 75252,
> USA; email [log in to unmask] The The 2006 Prize went to Michele
> Rivkin-Fish for Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics
> of Intervention (Indiana University Press 2005). The 2005 Prize was
> awarded to Joao Biehl for his book Vita: Life in a zone of social
> abandonment (University of California Press, 2005) and the 2004
> Prize went to Sandra Morgen for her book Into our own hands: The
> women's health movement in the United States, 1969-1990 (Rutgers
> University Press, 2002), while the 2003 Prize was shared by
> Caroline Bledsoe and Fatoumatta Banja for Contingent Lives:
> Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa Africa (The University of
> Chicago Press, 2002). Other previous winners include: Rhoda
> Kanaaneh for Birthing the Nation; Susan Kahn for Reproducing Jews;
> Gelya Frank for Venus on Wheels; Adele Clarke for Disciplining
> Reproduction; Rayna Rapp for Testing Women, Testing the Fetus;
> Nancy Scheper-Hughes for Death Without Weeping; Margarete
> Sandelowski for With Child in Mind; Barbara Duden for
> The Woman Beneath the Skin; Margaret Lock for Encounters with
> Aging; Marcia Inhorn for The Quest for Conception; Paul Farmer,
> Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons, and others for Women, Poverty and
> AIDS; Faye Ginsburg for Contested Lives; Joan Jacobs Brumberg for
> Fasting Girls; and Emily Martin for Woman in the Body.
>
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