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Archive of MH-HS Student Essay Award Winners

2009

Natalia Slain (Undergraduate)
Collaboration in Health Care: Integrating Traditional Medicine and Modern Biomedicine in Comprehensive Health Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jill Lauren Kauffman (Graduate)
The Vigil of Breathing and Decay: The Prose Poetics of Illness, Body, and Ethics

2008

Pat Barrett
Dueling Autonomy - An analysis of the relationship between patient and physician autonomy

Honorable Mentions:

R.J. Metz
The Rise and Fall of a Surgical Procedure: The Rotationplasty for PFFD

Joseph P. Smith
A 23-year-old homeless man with Type I diabetes mellitus - A Case Report

2007

Daniel Rieger (Graduate)
Standard of Care in Guidelines, Literature, and Developing Countries

Kathryn Wilmot (Graduate)
The Indiana Hospital for the Insane: Varying Perspectives of Moral Treatment Landscape

2006

Haley A. Billington (Undergraduate)
The Impact of Gender Inequality on HIV/AIDS in Africa

Brandon P. Brown (Graduate)
The Industry of Fertility

Eric Douglas Morrell (Graduate)
Dysfunctional Definitions of Dysfunction

2005

Nicole Paddock (Undergraduate)
Hospice: A Haven for the Dying or Just Another Regulated Medical Institution?

Nicholas L. Nussbaum (Graduate)
J. H. Kellogg: A Critical Analysis of His Central Theories

2004

Beth Windisch (Undergraduate)
Midwives in the Muslim World

Nick Werne (Graduate)
Hemochromatosis: Discovery and the Evolution of Therapy

2003

Theresa Martin (Undergraduate)
Understanding Female Genital Cutting as More Than a Medical Decision

Jennifer Vibul (Graduate)
Making Sense of Menstruation: From Plethora to Progesterone

2002

Joanne Goldbort (Graduate)
Postpartum Depression: Bridging the Gap Between Medicalized Birth and Social Support.

Lori A. Brister Hurst (Graduate)
Spirituality in Medicine: Utilitarianism vs. Principalism, and Putting God to the Test.

2001

Mary Kathleen Martinie (Graduate)
Inside the Glass Box

2000

John Phillip Hundley (Undergraduate)
"We Are Compelled as Practical Men to Do Something": Frederick Madison Allen and the "Starvation" Treatment of Diabetes: 1913-1922.

Danel Michelle Nickels (Graduate)
Casting the Discovery Net Too Wide in a Sea of Privacy?: Defense Attempts to Disclose Nonparty Medical Records in a Civil Action.

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