AMWA's Medical Book Awards
(For books published in 2008)

Winners for 2009

FIRST PLACE WINNERS

Category: Public or Health Care Consumers
Title: Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Author(s) or Editor(s): Pamela Weintraub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Category: Physicians
Title: War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007
Author(s) or Editor(s): LTC Shawn Christian Nessen, DO, US Army; Dave Edmond Lounsbury, MD, COL, US Army (Ret.); and Stephen P. Hetz, MD, COL, US Army (Ret.)
Publisher: Borden Institute

Category: Health Care Professionals (non-physicians)
Title: The Woman Who Walked into the Sea; Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
Author(s) or Editor(s): Alice Wexler
Publisher: Yale University Press

HONORABLE MENTION

Category: Public or Health Care Consumers
Title: The Alzheimer's Action Plan
Author(s) or Editor(s): P. Murali Doraiswamy, MD and Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW with Tina Adler
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Category: Public Health Care Consumers
Title: Pain Management for Older Adults: A self-help guide
Author(s) or Editor(s): Thomas Hadjistavropoulos and Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos
Publisher: IASP Press

Category: Physicians
Title: The Comatose Patient
Author(s) or Editor(s): Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Category: Health Care Professionals (non-physicians)
Title: Manual for Clinical Trials Nursing
Author(s) or Editor(s): Angela D. Klimaszewski, RN, MSN; Monica Bacon, RN; Heidi E. Deininger, PhD, RN; Bertie A. Ford, RN, MS; and Joan G. Westendorp, RN, MSN
Publisher: Oncology Nursing Society