History of Medicine Grants

Osler Library Research Travel Grant

The Osler Library Research Travel Grant is endowed through the generosity of graduates of the Class of Medicine of 1936, and is supported by the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University.

The Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University sponsors a travel grant, designed to assist scholars who need to travel to and establish temporary residence in Montreal in order to use the resources of the Library.

The grant is available to historians, physicians and to those interested in the arts and humanities of medical history. It carries an award of $1,500 (Canadian), and must be held from 2-4 weeks during the calendar year of 2011. $2,000 will be made available to those requiring 4 weeks to complete their research.

Applicants should fill in the Osler Library Travel Grant Application Form and send it to the address specified.

The applications are considered by a Committee which gives preference to specific and clearly described projects.

The deadline for the 2011 grant applications is December 31, 2010, and candidates will be informed of the results early in 2011.

Requests for further information should be addressed to:

Pamela Miller, History of Medicine Librarian
Osler Library
McGill University
3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler
Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3G 1Y6
Telephone (514) 398-4475 extension 09861
Facsimile: (514) 398-5747

Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in 20th Century History of Medicine or Science

This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical science, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph.

The Ph.D. must have been completed and the degree granted within the last five years (i.e., 2005–2009). The application must include a curriculum vitae, the dissertation abstract, a one-page summary of the proposed book; a description (not exceeding two pages) of the work to be undertaken for publication; and two letters of support from faculty members knowledgeable about the applicant‘s dissertation. Electronic copies of materials are preferred.

The application, including all supporting materials, must be postmarked by 31 December 2010 and addressed to the Chair of the Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Committee,

Erika Dyck
Department of History
9 Campus Drive
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon SK Canada S7N 5A5
erika.dyck@usask.ca

More information may be obtained from the Committee Chair.

American Physiological Society Orr E. Reynolds Award

Award: $500
Contact: Executive Office
Deadline: December 1

The Orr E. Reynolds Award, named for the second Executive Secretary-Treasurer, is presented for the best historical article submitted by a member of the Society. Articles may deal with any aspect of the history of physiology, including the development of physiological ideas and their application, instrumentation, individual and collective biography, departmental and institutional history, history of societies including APS, and physiology in its public context. Manuscripts should represent original research and be adequately documented. Articles published in journals or books of the Society during the prior calendar year are also eligible for the award upon request by the author. The recipient receives $500 and reimbursement of expenses, up to $1,500, incurred while attending the Experimental Biology meeting. The article may be published in one of the Society journals after appropriate peer review. Members may receive the award only once, and those members who have advanced degrees in the history of science or medicine are not eligible.

Applications will now only be accepted via online submission. Please go to http://www.the-aps.org/awardapps to apply.

For applications, contact the appropriate American Physiological Society office as listed at 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3991. Phone: 301-634-7118; fax: 301-634-7242; e-mail: awards@the-aps.org