|
McGovern
Award Recipients
| Year |
Recipient |
Lecture
topic |
| 2007 |
Steve Sternberg |
Covering the Plague: AIDS, the Press, and a Personal Journey |
| 2006 |
Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH |
Educating Medical Writers and Editors: Adventures on Two Continents |
| 2005 |
Alan Blum, MD |
Memoirs of a Medical Activist |
|
2004
|
Robert
E. Rakel, MD
|
Compassion
and the Art of Medicine: The Role of the Humanities in a Caring
Profession
|
|
2003
|
Robin
Marantz Henig
|
Turning
Science Into Stories: The Limits of Narrative Nonfiction
|
|
2002
|
Paula
L. Knudson
|
The Minefields
Surrounding Informed Consent for Research
|
|
2001
|
Walter
Pagel, ELS(D)
|
Not Just
the Facts, Ma'am: Ideas for Engaging Readers in the Story
of Your Science
|
|
2000
|
Dorothy
Nelkin
|
Bar-coded
Bodies: Commercialization of Body Tissue in the Biotechnology
Age
|
|
1999
|
Anne
Hudson Jones, PhD
|
Words
and Their Magic: Language, Literature, and Medicine
|
|
1998
|
Kay
Redfield Jamison, PhD
|
Moods
|
|
1997
|
Abraham
Verghese, MD
|
Searching
for Meaning
|
|
1996
|
John
H. Lienhard, PhD
|
Communication
Revolution: A Promise of Social Upheaval
|
|
1995
|
Paul
M. Raeburn
|
Truth,
Justice, and the American Way--Covering Medical News for the
Associated Press
|
|
1994
|
Ruth
Doyle SoRelle
|
My
Experiences as a Medical Writer, or How The Reader's Digest
Cured My Father's Gout
|
|
1993
|
John
Stone, MD
|
The
Human Encounter in Medicine
|
|
1992
|
John
C. Bailar, III, MD, PhD
|
Communication
in Science: Messages Sent, Messages Received
|
|
1991
|
Jane
E.Brody
|
Medicine
and Media: Pushing a Pound of Prevention Without Public Confusion
|
|
1990
|
Bruce
B. Dan, MD
|
Media
Medical Reporting: Its Liabilities, Ethical Hazards, and Moral
Conflicts
|
|
1989
|
Randy
Shilts
|
(lecture
untitled)
|
|
1988
|
Jeffrey
R. Lyon
|
Playing
God in the Nursery
|
|
1987
|
Edward
Huth, MD
|
New
Technology and the Future of Medical Publishing
|
|
1986
|
Oliver
W. Sacks, BM, BCh
|
(lecture
untitled)
|
|
1985
|
Richard
A. Seltzer, MD
|
The
Surgeon as Writer
|
|
1984
|
Donald
Radcliffe
|
Communication:
The Author-Editor-Reader Continuum
|
|
1983
|
Edith
Schwager
|
(keynote
address, First AMWA Southwest Chapter Conference)
|
|

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