The Forum for the History of Health, Medicine and the Life Sciences is proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Graduate Student Essay Prize is:
Hannah LeBlanc (Cornell University), “Are we well fed?’: The politics of knowledge and nutrition in 1960s America”.
Honourable Mention: Gina Suritra (Princeton University), “From ‘Female Sex Hormone’ to ‘Breast Cancer Hormone’ to ‘Growth Hormone’: Estrogen and the Remaking of Breast Cancer, 1940-1990”.
The call for submissions for the 2020 essay prize will be posted in the coming winter.