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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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