The
Department of Social
Medicine
THE SOCIAL MEDICINE PAPER AWARD
The
Department of Social Medicine announces an award that recognizes exceptional
scholarship by students in Social Medicine classes. A cash prize will be presented to the winner.
Eligibility: Any scholarly paper,
essay, artistic work or fiction, or other representational form produced by
students for any Social Medicine class.
Students may revise papers produced for class before submission for the
Social Medicine Paper Award, and consultation with Social Medicine faculty
about revisions is recommended but not required. Social Medicine classes include: Medicine and Society, any of the Humanities
and Social Sciences Selective Seminars, Clinical Epidemiology, and electives
with Social Medicine faculty. If more
than one person has contributed to the submitted work, the Awards Committee
should be consulted regarding eligibility.
Criteria: The Social Medicine
Paper Award recognizes work that:
· Epitomizes the
integration of social and clinical thinking;
· Applies social
science and humanities perspectives to the world of medicine;
· Represents creative
efforts to convey or represent the experiences of patients,
physicians, and
others related to health, illness, or treatment.
Format Requirements: Written materials
may not exceed 25 typed pages, double-spaced.
Film, art, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and other formats are invited,
and should be easily assessed and appreciated by a general academic
audience. Non-print submissions should
be accompanied by written material that explains the relevance of the work to
the above criteria.
Deadline: June 14, 2004
Submissions: Submissions should
be delivered to Judy Benoit in Room 372, Wing D,
Award Committee: The submissions will
be judged by a faculty committee. The
prize will be awarded at the annual Whitehead Lecture Awards Ceremony in
August, 2004.