let me please to call your attention once again to the Santorio Award for Excellence in Research
sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR)
This award is designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science with a focus on European and the Western traditions (widely construed, including interactions with,
and borrowings from, other cultures/traditions/practices around the Mediterranean, especially Arabic and Hebrew) throughout
the period 500-1800.
It is named after the Italian physician, philosopher and inventor Santorio Santori (1561-1636), who is considered the father of quantitative experimental physiology.
Nature of the Award
The award consists of a cash prize (for the first position) plus a medal and a publication for the two first selected works with the series
Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM) edited by Jonathan Barry and Fabrizio Bigotti.
1st Place: € 1.500 + medal + publication*
2nd Place: medal + publication*
*Publication is agreed separately by the editors of the series upon the whole work passing the double peer-review process and its subject to the final approval by Palgrave MacMillan.
Eligibility
The award is open to PhD students and early career scholars of all nationalities within six years from their viva (not prior to 1st June 2013).
Application Process
Applicants should send a cover letter with the index of their thesis plus a significant chapter of it to
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to the head of the scientific committee at
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Closing date for Application:
25 February 2020 with successful applicants notified in early May.
Ceremony Award
Successful applicants will receive their award during the last day of the 2020 CSMBR conference, whose date will be communicated later this year, and invited to present a paper on their thesis.
Fabrizio Bigotti, PhD