AMWA's Medical Book Awards
(For books published in 2007)

Winners for 2008

FIRST PLACE WINNERS

Category: Public/healthcare consumers
Title: Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases
Author or Editor: Paul A. Offit, MD
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Category: Physicians
Title: Manic Depressive Illness, Second Edition
Authors or Editors: Frederick K. Goodwin, MD and Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Category: Healthcare professionals (non-physicians)
Title: Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice
Authors or Editors: Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD; Barbara G. Wells, PharmD; Terry L.Schwinghammer, PharmD; Patrick M. Malone, PharmD; Jill M. Kolesar, PharmD; John C. Rotschafer, Pharm D; Joseph T. Dipiro, PharmD
Publisher: McGraw Hill

HONORABLE MENTION

Category: Public/healthcare consumers
Title: Heal Your Aching Back
Authors or Editors: Jeffery N. Katz, MD and Gloria Parkinson
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Category: Physicians
Title: Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare
Authors or Editors: Zygmunt F. Dembek, PhD
Publisher: Borden Institute

Category: Physicians
Title: Plum and Posner’s Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma
Authors or Editors: Jerome B. Posner, MD; Clifford B. Saper, MD, PhD; Nicholas D. Schiff, MD; Fred Plum, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Category: Physicians
Title: Race & Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America
Authors or Editors: Todd L. Savitt
Publisher: Kent State Univeristy Press