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Churchill Livingstone
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Blackwell Science
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Churchill Livingstone
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Churchill Livingstone
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Churchill Livingstone
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Mosby
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Isis Medical Media
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Mosby
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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Churchill Livingstone
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Blackwell Science
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2001
Prize 1: The Asher Prize £1,000 (sponsored anonymously)
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BIOS Scientific Publishers Ltd
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Churchill Livingstone
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Academic Press
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Butterworth Heinemann
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Mosby
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Christopher M. Ball and Robert S. Phillips eds ACUTE MEDICINE EVIDENCE-BASED ON CALL
Churchill Livingstone
[no highly commended]
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Harold Ellis A HISTORY OF SURGERY
Greenwich Medical Media
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Royal Society of Medicine Press
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Martin Dunitz
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Wright
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Churchill Livingstone
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Butterworth Heinemann
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www.primarycareonline.co.uk
Radcliffe Online Ltd
[no highly commended]
2002
Prize 1: The Asher Prize £1,200 (sponsored anonymously)
Joint Winners (to share prize money):
Alastair M. Thompson GENERAL SURGICAL ANATOMY AND EXAMINATION
Churchill Livingstone
Roderick Nairn and Matthew Helbert IMMUNOLOGY FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
Mosby
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Annika Isberg TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DYSFUNCTION: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE
Isis Medical Media
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Murray C Meikle CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH AND EVOLUTION
Bateson Publishing
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Mary Rutherford MRI OF THE NEONATAL BRAIN
W.B. Saunders
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David Westaby and Martin Lombard THERAPEUTIC GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY
Martin Dunitz
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Wendy Abrams and Siân Howell THE GP REGISTRAR SURVIVAL GUIDE
BIOS Scientific Publishers Limited
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Jack J. Kanski and Stanislaw A. Milewski DISEASES OF THE MACULA: A PRACTICAL APPROACH
Mosby
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Penelope Hunting THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
Royal Society of Medicine Press
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Marshall Barr SURGERY, SAND AND SAIGON TEA
Allen & Unwin
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Roderick N.M. MacSween, Alastair D. Burt, Bernard C. Portmann, Kamal G. Ishak, Peter J. Scheuer, Peter P. Anthony PATHOLOGY OF THE LIVER, 4th edition
Churchill Livingstone
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W.B. Saunders
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Churchill Livingstone
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Churchill Livingstone
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Royal Society of Medicine Press and RCOG Press
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Winner:
Louise Crowe ed. www.fleshandbones.com
Elsevier Science
[no highly commended]
2003
Prize 1: The Richard Asher Prize £1,200 (sponsored anonymously)
Winner:
Richard J. Epstein HUMAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Cambridge University Press
[No highly commended]
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Winner:
Chantal Simon, Hazel Everitt, Jon Birtwistle & Brian Stevenson OXFORD HANDBOOK OF GENERAL PRACTICE
Oxford University Press
Highly Commended:
Adam Zeman CONSCIOUSNESS: A USER'S GUIDE
Yale University Press
James W. Ironside, Tim H. Moss, David N. Louis, James S. Lowe & Roy O. Weller DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOURS
Churchill Livingstone
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Linda M. Luxon ed., co-edited by Joseph M. Furman, Alessandro Martini & Dafydd Stephens TEXTBOOK OF AUDIOLOGICAL MEDICINE: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF HEARING AND BALANCE
Martin Dunitz
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Greenwich Medical Media
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Churchill Livingstone
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Oxford University Press
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W.W. Norton Company
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Blackwell Science
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Mosby
R.H.S. Carpenter NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, 4th edition
Arnold
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David A. Warrell, Timothy M. Cox, John D. Firth, with Edward J. Benz Jr OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF MEDICINE, 4th edition
Oxford University Press
Highly Commended:
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Churchill Livingstone
David Graham, Peter L. Lantos GREENFIELD'S NEUROPATHOLOGY, 7th edition
Arnold
Prize 7: The Minty Prize of the Medico-Legal Society £1,000
Winner:
Jason Payne-James, Anthony Busuttil, William Smock Eds. FORENSIC MEDICINE: CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Greenwich Medical Media
Highly Commended:
Lisa Schwartz, Paul E. Preece, Robert A. Hendry MEDICAL ETHICS: A CASE-BASED APPROACH
Saunders
Prize 8: Medical Website
[Not awarded]
Prize 9: The Royal Society of Medicine Library Prize: The Society of Authors and The Royal Society of Medicine Book of the year £1,200
Winner:
Richard J. Epstein HUMAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Cambridge University Press
2004
Prize 1: The Richard Asher Prize £1,200 (sponsored anonymously)
Winner:
Graham P Butcher GASTROENTEROLOGY: AN ILLUSTRATED COLOUR TEXT
Churchill Livingstone
Highly Commended:
Ross J Taylor, Brian R McAvoy, Tom O'Dowd GENERAL PRACTICE MEDICINE: AN ILLUSTRATED COLOUR TEXT
Prize 2: New authored book £1,200
Winner:
Crispian Scully ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL MEDICINE
Wright
Highly Commended:
Andrew Moore, Jayne Edwards, Jodie Barden, Henry McQuay BANDOLIER'S LITTLE BOOK OF PAIN
Oxford University Press
Kieran Walshe REGULATING HEALTHCARE: A PRESCIPTION FOR IMPROVEMENT
Open University Press
Prize 3: New edited book £1,200
Winner:
Brian Hazleman, Graham Riley, Cathy Speed SOFT TISSUE RHEUMATOLOGY
Oxford Medical Publications
Highly Commended:
James Drife, Brian Magowan CLINICAL OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY
Saunders
Peter Ward Booth, Barry L Eppley, Rainer Schmelzeisen MAXILLOFACIAL TRAUMA AND ESTHETIC FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION
Churchill Livingstone
Prize 4: New Medical History book £600
Winner:
Graham A J Ayliffe, Mary P English HOSPITAL INFECTION: FROM MIASMAS TO MRSA
Cambridge University Press
No Highly Commended
Prize 5: New edition authored book £600
Winner:
Jack K Kanski CLINICAL OPTHALMOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH, 5TH EDITION
Butterworth Heinemann
Highly Commended:
John Guillebaud CONTRACEPTION: YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, 4TH EDITION
Churchill Livingstone
Cedric Mims, Hazel M Dockrell, Richard V Goering, Ivan Roitt, Derek Wakelin, Mark Zuckerman MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 3RD EDITION
Moseby
Prize 6: New edition edited book £600
Winner:
Eldryd Parry, Richard Godfrey, David Mabey, Geoffrey Gill PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE IN AFRICA, 3RD EDITIONbr> Cambridge University Press
Highly Commended:
Arthur H Crisp EVERY FAMILY IN THE LAND: UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, REVISED EDITION
Royal Society of Medicine Press
Prize 7: The Minty Prize of the Medico-Legal Society £1,000
Winner:
Timothy Meakin, Peter Ellis WORK RELATED INJURY AND ILLNESS LITIGATION: A PRACTITIONER'S HANDBOOK
EMIS Professional Publishing
No Highly Commended
Prize 8: Medical Website (£600)
Winner
www.malehealth.co.uk - Jim Pollard
The Men's Health Forum
Prize 9: Medical book for the general reader (£600)
Winner
Ragner Hanas TYPE 1 DIABETES IN CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Class Health
Highly Commended:
Trevor Powell, Kit Malia THE BRAIN INJURY WORKBOOK: EXERCISES FOR COGNITIVE REHABILITATION
Speechmark and Headway
Simon Baron-Cohen THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE
Penguin Books
Prize 10: The Royal Society of Medicine Library Prize: The Society of Authors and The Royal Society of Medicine Book of the year £1,200
Winner:
Brian Hazleman, Graham Riley, Cathy Speed SOFT TISSUE RHEUMATOLOGY
Oxford Medical Publications
2005
Prize 1: The Royal Society of Medicine Library Prize: The Society of Authors/RSM Medical Book of the Year, chosen from the winners of the individual categories (£1,200).
Winner: Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach - edited by Kevin O. Leslie and Mark R. Wick (Elsevier Churchill Livingstone).
Prize 2: The Richard Asher Prize for a first medical textbook for students, sponsored anonymously (£1,200).
Joint Winners: Illustrated Clinical Anatomy by Peter Abrahams, John Craven and John Lumley (Hodder Arnold) and Cardiology: An Illustrated Colour Text by David E. Newby and Neil Grubb (Elsevier Churchill Livingstone).
Prize 3: New Authored Book (£1,200)
Winner: Diseases of the Ocular Fundus by Jack J. Kanski, Stanislaw A. Milewski, Bertil E. Damato and Vaughan Tanner (Elsevier Mosby).
Prize 4: New Edited Books. (£900 Prize for a New Edited Book retailing at less than £75)
Winner: Capnography: Clinical Aspects - edited by J. S. Gravenstein, Michael B. Jaffe and David A. Paulus (Cambridge University Press).
Prize 5: New Edited Books (£900 Prize for a New Edited Book retailing at £75 or over).
Winner: Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach - edited by Kevin O. Leslie and Mark R. Wick (Elsevier Churchill Livingstone).
Prize 6: New Edition of an Authored Book (£600)
Joint Winners: Imaging Diseases of the Chest, fourth edition by David M. Hansell, Peter Armstrong, David A. Lynch and H. Page McAdams (Elsevier Mosby) and Regional Nerve Blocks & Infiltration Therapy: Textbook & Color Atlas, third edition by Danilo Jankovic and William Harrop-Griffiths (Blackwell Publishing).
Prize 7: New Edition of an Edited Book (£600).
Winner: Pathology of the Skin with Clinical Correlations, Volumes 1 & 2, third edition edited by Phillip H. McKee, Eduardo Calonje and Scott R. Granter (Elsevier Mosby).
Prize 8: Minty Prize of the Medico-Legal Society for a medico-legal book, sponsored by the Medico-Legal Society (£1,000).
Winner: Medicine for Lawyers edited by Roy Palmer and Diana Wetherill (The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd).
Prize 9: Medical Book for the General Reader (£600).
Winner: Being a Cancer Patient’s Carer: A Guide by Wesley C. Finegan (Radcliffe Publishing Ltd).
2006
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.