The Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science invites applications for the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the promotion of young scholars in the history of medicine and science.

Presentation

The prize was founded in 1967 by Mr. and Mrs Guggenheim-Schnurr from Basel in order to award outstanding young scholars in the field of history of medicine and science.

Applicants should submit studies completed within the last two years, i.e.

• phd and habilitation dissertations
• printed books
• works of another kind which have been selected by the jury or proposed to it.

The texts must be written either in German, French, Italian or English and related to Switzerland by content, authorship, institution or topic. Work which has previously been awarded a prize is not eligible. Candidates doctors should not have defended their thesis more than 8 years previously. The detailed regulations can be found at www.sggmn.ch/sigerist-preis-e.html.

The prize amounts to CHF 2000.- (approx. EUR 2000)

Application guidelines

Applications (in electronic form or in two paper copies, including a short CV) and enquiries should be sent to the president of the jury:

Dr Philip Rieder

Institut éthique histoire humanités

Centre Médical Universitaire

Case postale

1211 Genève 4

Tél: 021 379 46 03

Philip.rieder@unige.ch

Before 2023, April 30th

Jury

The jury includes the president of the jury and members of the Swiss institutes for the history of medicine : Aude Fauvel, Pascal Germann, Martina King and Maria Boehmer.