American Sociological Association: Medical Sociology Section Past Award Recipients

Medical Sociology Section Awards Recipients

Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award
The Eliot Friedson Award was established in 1993. The award alternates between a book and an article.

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Howard Waitzkin	University of New Mexico	2011. Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
2011	Ka Liu, Marissa King and Peter Bearman	Columbia University	“Social Influence and the Autism Epidemic.” American Journal of Sociology 115 (5): 1389-1434.
2010	Kelly A. Joyce		College of William and Mary, Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency Cornell University Press, 2008
2009	Bernice A. Pescosolido, Brea L. Perry, J. Scott Long, Jack K. Martin, John I. Nurnberger and Victor Hesselbrock	Indiana University	“Under the Influence of Genetics: How Transdisciplinarity Leads Us to Rethink Social Pathways to Illness”. American Journal of Sociology, vol. 114 (Suppl.) S171-S201 2008
2008	Steven Epstein	University of California, San Diego	Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
2007	Elizabeth Armstrong, Daniel P. Carpenter and Marie Hojnacki	Princeton University, Harvard University and Pennsylvania State University	Whose Deaths Matter?:Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media
2006	Stefan Timmermans	Brandeis University	Portmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
2005	Jason Beckfield Jill Quadagno		"Does Income Inequality Harm Health?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior (September 2004) "Why the United States has No National Health Insurance" Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Extra Issue 2004)
2004	Samuel W. Bloom	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	“The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology”
2003	Not given
2002	Not given
2001	David Rier	Bar-Ilan University	“The Missing Voice of the Critically Ill: Medical Scociologist’s First-Person Account”
2000	Carol Heimner and Lisa R. Staffen	Northwestern University	For the Sake of Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home
1999	Stephanie A. Robert	University of Wisconsin, Madison	“Community –Level Socio-Economic Status Effects on Adult Health”
1998	Daniel F. Chambliss	Hamilton College	Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses and the Social Organization of Ethics
1997	Ann Barry Flood Mary Fennell	Dartmouth Unversity Brown University	“Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery through the Lenses of Organizational Theory and Research in Conceptualizing and Examining our Health Care System.”
1996	Renee Anspach	University of Michigan
1995	Catherine E. Ross Chloe E. Bird	Ohio State University Health Institute	“Sex Stratification and Health: Lifestyle: Consequences for Men’s and Women’s Perceived Health”
1994	Gary L. Albrecht	University of Illinois-Chicago	The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America
1993	Constance A. Nathanson Robert Zussman	Johns Hopkins University SUNY-Stony Brook	“Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence” Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

Leo G. Reeder Award

In 1977 the Section on Medical Sociology established an award for distinguished service to the field. The award was renamed the Leo G. Reeder Award following the death of Reeder, Chair of the Section, in 1978. Leo G. Reeder was onboard Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 when it collided with another plane over San Diego on September 25, 1978; there were no survivors.

Year	Name	Affiliation
2012	Phil Brown	Brown University
2011	David Williams	Harvard University
2010	Peggy A. Thotis	Indiana University
2009	Jill Quadagno	Florida State University
2008	Carol Aneschensel	UCLA
2007	Bruce Link	Columbia University
2006	Howard B. Kaplan	Texas A&M University
2005	Bernice Pescosolido	Indiana University
2004	Peter Conrad	Brandeis University
2003	Not given
2002	R. Jay Turner	Florida State University
2001	James House	Institute for Survey Research, University of Michigan
2000	Mary E.W. Goss	Weill, Medical College of Cornell University
1999	Bruce Dohrenwend	Columbia University
1998	Robert Straus	University of Kentucky
1997	Howard Waitzkin	University of New Mexico
1996	Rodney M. Coe	Saint Louis University, School of Medicine
1995	John B. McKinlay	New England Research Institute
1994	Ronald M. Andersen	University of California-Los Angeles
1993	Marie R. Haug	Case Western Reserve University
1992	Marshall Becker	University of Michigan
1991	Leonard Pearlin	University of California-San Francisco
1990	Irving Zola	Brandeis University
1989	Samuel W. Bloom	Mt Sinai School of Med/CUNY
1988	Virginia Olesen	University of California-San Francisco
1987	John Clausen	University of California-Berkeley
1986	Sol Levine	Boston University
1985	Jack Elinson	Columbia University School of Public Health
1984	Renee Fox	University of Pennsylvania
1983	David Mechanic	University of Wisconsin
1982	Eliot Freidson	New York University
1981	Anselm Strauss	University of California-San Francisco
1980	Odin Anderson	University of Chicago
1979	Margot Jefferys	Bedford College, University of London
1978	Everett Hughes	University of Chicago
1977	August B. Hollingshead	Yale University

Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award

This award was named the Best Dissertation Award until 1993; then, it became the Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Year	Name	Affiliation	Dissertation Title
2012	Elaine Hernandez	The University of Texas at Austin	"The Unintended Consequences of Medical Advances: Educational Differences in H1N1 Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy"
2011	Nancy C. Davenport	Columbia University	“Medical Residents' Use of Narrative Templates in Storytelling and Diagnosis” Columbia University.
2010	Kerry Dobransky	Northwestern University, James Madison University	“Help Me Help You: The Logic and Practice of Empowerment in Community Mental Health Services.”
2009	Marissa D. King	Colombia University	“The Evolution of a Socioeconomic Gradient for Autism”
2008	Rene Almeling	UCLA	Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material
2007	Kristen Springer	University of Wisconsin	His and Her Marriage Today: The Impact of Wives’ Employment on Husbands’ Later Mid-Life Health
2006	Joanna Kempner	University of Michigan	“Not Tonight: The Politics of Gender and Ligitimacy in Heachache Medicine”
2005	Rebecca Utz	University of Utah	“Obesity in America 1960-2000: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis”
2004	Jennifer Fishman	University of California, San Francisco and Case Western Reserve	"Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification of Female Sexual Dysfunction"
2003	Not given
2002	Not given
2001	Karen Luftey	University of Minnesota	“Practitioner Assessments of Patient Compliance with Medical Treatment Regimens: An Ethnographic Study of Two Diabetes Clinics”
2000	Elizabeth R. Armstrong	University of Michigan	“Diagnosing Moral Disorder: The Discovery and Evolution of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome”
1999	Anne E. Barrett	Duke University	“Marital Trajectories and Mental Health: A Typological Approach to the Social Causation Hypothesis”
1998	Stephanie A. Robert	University of California-Berkeley	“Community-level Socioeconomic Status Effects on Adult Health”
1997	Timothy J. Hoff	State University of New York-Albany	“Conflicting Identities among Physician-Managers in a Changing HMO”
1996	Monica J. Casper	University of California-Santa Cruz	"Working on and Around Human Fetuses: The Contested Domain of Fetal Surgery, 1963-1993"
1995	Eric R. Wright	Indiana University	“Caring for Those Who Can’t: Gender Network Structure, and the Burden of Caring For People with Mental Illness”
1994	Donald Barr	Stanford University	“Medical Work in Estonia: The Intersection of Professional and Bureaucratic Systems for Authority in Determining Professional Status and Rewards”
1993	Robin W. Simon	Indiana University	“Spouse, Parent, and Worker: Gender, Multiple Roles, Role Meaning and Mental Health”
1992	Shirley A. Hill	University of Kansas	“Mothers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease: The Management of Chronic Illness in Low-income African American Families”
1991	Karen A. Lyman	Chaffey College	“Stress in the Work of Dementia Care: A Comparison of Eight Alzheimer's Day Care Centers”
1990	Charles W. Hunt	University of Utah
1989	Thomas A. LaVeist	University of California-Los Angeles	“The Political Power and Health Status of Urban Blacks: Mapping a New Territory”
1988	Joan Fujimara	Harvard University
1987	Debra Umberson	University of Michigan	“Parenthood & Social Integration: Implications for Psychological Well-Being and Risk-Taking Behaviors”
1986	Adele Clark	University of California-San Francisco	“Emergence of the Reproductive Research Enterprise: A Sociology of Biological, Medical, and Agricultural Science in the U.S., 1910-1940”
1985	Catherine Taylor	McGill University	“Good Death as Medical Success”
1984
1983	Renee Anspach	University of California-San Diego
1982
1981	Robert Hernandez	University of North Carolina	“A Conservative Model of Selected Social-Psychological Processes Affecting Work Groups in Health Services Organizations”

Louise Johnson Memorial Scholar

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Mike Halpin	University of Wisconsin – Madison	“Carry that Weight: Genetics, Genetic Suffering and Geneodicy”