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Prizes, grants and awards
Medical Book Awards 2006
The Society of Authors and The Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards 2006
The Awards totalling £8,800 were presented on Wednesday 18th October by psychologist and celebrity doctor, Tanya Byron, at a ceremony at the Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London.
The Royal Society of Medicine Library Prize: the Society of Authors/RSM Medical Book of the Year, chosen from among the winners of the individual categories
Winner (£1,200) - awarded to:
Drug Discovery and Development - Humphrey Rang
(Churchill Livingstone)
Nine further prizes for individual categories were presented as follows:
Prize 1: The Richard Asher Prize (sponsored anonymously)
Winner (£1,200) - awarded to:
Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy - Kenneth P Moses, John C Banks, Pedro B Nava and Darrell Petersen
(Elsevier)
Prize 2: New Authored Book
Winner (£1,200) - awarded to:
First Steps in Vesico-Vaginal Fistula Repair - Brian Hancock
(RSM Press)
Prize 3: New Edited Book retailing at less than £75
Winner: (£900) - awarded to:
Drug Discovery and Development - edited by Humphrey Rang
(Churchill Livingstone)
Prize 4: New Edited Book retailing at £75 or over
Winner: (£900) - awarded to:
The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children – edited by Ann Goldman, Richard Hain and Stephen Liben
(Oxford University Press)
Prize 5: New Non-Clinical Book
Winner (£600) - awarded to:
Nelson’s Surgeon, William Beatty, Naval Medicine and the Battle of Trafalgar - Laurence Brockliss, John Cardwell and Michael Moss
(Oxford University Press)
Prize 6: New Edition Authored Book
Winner (£600) - awarded to:
Liver Biopsy Interpretation (7th edition) - Peter J Scheuer & Jay Lefkowitch
(Elsevier Saunders)
Prize 7: New Edition Edited Book
Winner (£600) - awarded jointly to:
Textbook of Female Urology and Urogynecology – edited by Linda Cardozo and David Staskin
(Taylor & Francis)
and
Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies (2nd edition) – edited by Mark G Lebwohl, John Berth-Jones, Ian Coulson and Warren R Heymann
(Mosby)
Prize 8: The Minty Prize of the Medico-Legal Society
Winner (£1,000) - awarded to:
Encylcopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine – edited by Jason Payne-James, Roger Byard, Tracey Corey and Carol Henderson
(Elsevier)
Prize 9: Medical Book for the General Reader
Winner (£600) - awarded to:
Pregnancy & Conception Over 35 - Laura Goetzl and Regine Harford
(Dorling Kindersley)
The prizes were judged by the Medical Writers Group of the Society of Authors, and are sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine.