The medal has been awarded every year since 1971. Before 1971, there were some years in which the medal was not awarded. • 2023 — Yan Liu,
Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2021) • 2022 — Jaipreet Virdi,
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (University of Chicago Press, 2020) • 2021 —
Benjamin Breen,
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019); 10-digit • 2020 — Nicole Barnes,
Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 (University of California Press, 2018) • 2019 — Pablo Gómez,
The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (University of North Carolina Press, 2017); • 2018 — Cristian Berco,
From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2016) • 2017 — Johanna Schoen,
Abortion After Roe: Abortion After Legalization (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) • 2016 — Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei,
Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2014) • 2015 — Leslie J. Reagan,
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (University of California Press, 2010) • 2014 —
Julie Livingston,
Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke, University Press, 2012) • 2013 —
Michael Willrich,
Pox: An American History (Penguin Press, 2011) • 2012 — Gregg Mitman,
Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2007) • 2011 —
Allan M. Brandt,
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (Basic Books, 2007) • 2010 —
Warwick Anderson,
The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2008) • 2009 —
Katharine Park,
Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (Zone Books, 2006) • 2008 — Frank M. Snowden III,
The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (New Haven: Yale University Press 2006) • 2007 — Ruth Rogaski,
Hygienic Modernity: Meaning of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) • 2006 —
Barron H. Lerner,
Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) • 2005 —
Keith Wailoo,
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) • 2004 —
Kenneth Ludmerer,
Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) • 2003 —
Roy Porter,
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (London: HarperCollins, 1997); • 2002 —
Nancy Tomes,
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). • 2001 —
Shigehisa Kuriyama,
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (NY: Zone Books, 1999) • 2000 —
W. Bruce Fye,
American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and its College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) • 1999 — Jack D. Pressman,
Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1998); • 1998 —
Mary Lindemann,
Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) • 1997 —
Harold J. Cook,
Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) • 1996 —
Gerald L. Geison,
The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (Princeton University Press, 1995) • 1995 —
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
A Midwife’s Tale (NY: Knopf, distributed by Random House, 1990) • 1994 — Michael R. McVaugh,
Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1345 (Cambridge University Press, 1993) • 1993 —
Heinrich von Staden,
Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Ancient Alexandria (Cambridge University Press, 1989) • 1992 —
Philip Curtin,
Death by Migration (Cambridge University Press, 1989) • 1991 — John Harley Warner,
The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Knowledge and Identity in America, 1820–1855 (Harvard University Press, 1986) • 1990 —
Rosemary Stevens,
In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (NY: Basic Books, 1989) • 1989 —
Richard J. Evans,
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830–1910 (Oxford University Press, 1987) • 1988 —
Guenter B. Risse,
Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Oxford University Press, 1987) • 1987 — James H. Cassedy (1919–2007),
American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800–1860 (Harvard University Press, 1984) ; and Medicine and American Growth, 1800–1860 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986) • 1986 —
Gerald N. Grob,
The State and the Mentally Ill: A History of the Worcester State Hospital (University of North Carolina Press, 1966); and Mental Institutions in America (NY: Free Press, 1972); and
Mental Illness and American Society, 1897–1940 (Princeton University Press, 1983) • 1985 —
Nancy G. Siraisi,
Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning (Princeton University Press, 1981) • 1984 —
Michael Bliss,
The Discovery of Insulin (University of Chicago Press, 1982) • 1983 — Robert Gregg Frank,
Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction (University of California Press, 1980) • 1982 —
James Harvey Young, "for scholarly contributions to the history of medicine" • 1981 —
Erna Lesky, "for significant contributions to the history of medicine" • 1980 — John Ballard Blake (1922–2006), "for his valuable scholarly contributions to the history of medicine" • 1979 —
Charles Webster,
The Great Instauration: Medicine and Reform, 1626–1660 (NY: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1976, c1975) • 1978 —
Frederic L. Holmes,
Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry: The Emergence of a Scientist (Harvard University Press, 1974) • 1977 —
Lester S. King, ”for his scholarly contributions to the history of medicine” • 1976 — Lelland J. Rather,
Addison and the White Corpuscles (University of California Press, 1972) ; and
Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Medicine (University of California Press, 1965), ; and for “his important continuing studies in the history of medicine” • 1975 —
George W. Corner, "for invaluable contributions" • 1974 —
Walter Pagel, "for extensive and most valuable publications" • 1973 — Margaret Tallmadge May,
Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body (Cornell University Press, 1968) • 1972 —
Erwin H. Ackerknecht,
Medicine at the Paris Hospital, 1794–1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962) • 1971 —
Charles Donald O’Malley (1907–1970), (posthumously) "for scholarly contributions" • 1970 — No award • 1969 —
Charles E. Rosenberg,
The Cholera Years (University of Chicago Press, 1962); • 1968 — Saul Benison, Tom Rivers:
Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science (M.I.T. Press, 1967) • 1967 — Howard B. Adelman,
Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology (Cornell University Press, 1966) • 1966 —
Whitfield J. Bell Jr.,
John Morgan: Continental Doctor (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965); • 1965 — No award • 1964 — No award • 1963 —
Saul Jarcho, "for scholarly contributions" • 1962 —
Genevieve Miller,
The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France (University of Kentucky Press, 1960) • 1961 —
George Rosen, "for contributions to the social history of medicine" • 1960 —
Richard H. Shryock, "for scholarly contributions" • 1959 — No award • 1958 — Charles F. Mullett (1901–1994),
The Bubonic Plague and England: An Essay in the History of Preventive Medicine (University of Kentucky Press, 1956) • 1957 — No award • 1956 — Lyman Henry Butterfield (editor),
Letters of Benjamin Rush (Princeton University Press, 1951) ; • 1955 — No award • 1954 —
Jerome Pierce Webster and
Martha Teach Gnudi,
The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi (New York: Reichner, 1950) • 1953 —
Erwin H. Ackerknecht, "for scholarly contributions" • 1952 —
Owsei Temkin, "for scholarly contributions" • 1951 — No award • 1950 —
Henry E. Sigerist, "for scholarly contribution" ==References==