Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award

 

The Freidson Award is given in alternate years to a book or journal article published in the preceding two years that has had a major impact on the field of medical sociology.  The 2010 award will be given to a scholarly book published in either 2008 or 2009.  The book may deal with any topic in medical sociology, broadly defined.  Co-authored books are appropriate to nominate; edited volumes are not eligible.  When making your nomination, please indicate (however briefly) the reason for the nomination.  You do not need to send a copy of the book.  Self-nominations are permissible and encouraged.  Nomination letters can be sent to:  Professor Peggy A. Thoits, Department of Sociology, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., 744 Ballantine Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.  Alternatively, nomination emails can be sent to  pthoits@indiana.edu with the subject line:  Freidson Award Nomination.  Nominations are due by February 15, 2010.
 
Year, Name, Affiliation at Time of Award, and Title of Publication
2009    Bernice A. Pescosolido, Brea L. Perry, J. Scott Long, Jack K. Martin (Indiana University), John L. Nurnberger
            (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis) and Victor Hasselbrock (University of Connecticut).
            Under the Influence of Genetics: How Transdisciplinarity Leads Us to Rethink Social Pathways to Illness
2008    Steven Epstein (University of California, San Diego). Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
2007    Elizabeth Armstrong (Princeton University), Daniel P. Carpenter (Harvard University), and Marie Hojnacki (Pennsylvania
            State University).  Whose Deaths Matter?:Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media
2006    Stefan Timmermans (University of California, Los Angeles).    Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths.
2005    Jason Beckfield (University of Chicago).  Does Income Inequality Harm Health?  Jill Quadagno (Florida State University). 
    Why the United States has No National Health Insurance
2004    Samuel W. Bloom (Mount Sinai School of Medicine).   The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology.
2003    David Cohen (Florida International University), Michael McCubbin and Johanne Collin (University of Montreal), and Guilheme
            Perodeau (University of Quebec).  Medications as Social Phenomena.
2002    W. Richard Scott (Stanford University), Martin Ruef (UNC-CH), Peter J. Mendel (Stanford University), and Carol A. Caronna
            (Stanford University).  Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations - From Professional Dominance to Managed Care
2001    David Rier (Bar-Ilan University) "The Missing Voice of the Critically Ill: Medical Sociologist's First-Person Account"
2000    Carol A. Heimer (Northwestern University) and Lisa R. Staffen (Northwestern University). For the Sake of the Children: The
            Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home
1999    Stephanie Robert (University of Wisconsin).   Community-Level Socioeconomic 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 (Dartmouth University) and Mary Fennell (Brown University). Through the Lenses of Organizational Theory and
            Research in Conceptualizing and Examining our Health Care System
1996    Renee Anspach (University of Michigan).  Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery
1995    Catherine E. Ross (Ohio State University) and Chloe E. Bird (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 (Johns Hopkins University).   "Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's
            Adolescence" Robert Zussman (SUNY-Stony Brook).  Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession
 
The Eliot Friedson Award was established in 1993. The award alternates between a book and an "article."