Grants: NEH/DHSS-AHRQ fellowships in healthcare studies awarded
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L (The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum) from H-SCHOLAR via ANES-HIST. Two of the 5 awards are of particular topical interest to some HISTNEUR-Lers and might inspire their own NEH/DHSS-AHRQ applications: Nancy Cervetti's work on S. Weir Mitchell and Marcia Meldrum's on attitudes toward pain. Since submitting her NEH application as an independent scholar, Dr. Marcia Meldrum returned to UCLA in January 2001 as a faculty member of the Department of History--with additional support/affiliation as an historian for the Neuroscience History Archives in UCLA's Brain Research Institute and continuing as Co-Director of the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection/UCLA History of Pain Project in the History & Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She recently joined the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, and is listed in the society's online membership directory at: http://www.ishn.org/ishndir.htm Russell Johnson --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:40:16 -0600 From: "A.J. Wright" <a.j.wright@CCC.UAB.EDU> Subject: FW: H-SCHOLAR: GRANTS: NEH/DHSS fellowships in healthcare studies awarded Sender: History of Anesthesiology <ANES-HIST@chico.MED.YALE.EDU> FYI...some subscribers may be interested in one or more of the topics in this year's awards...please note details for the 2001-2002 round of awards at the bottom of this post..deadline is May 1, 2001.... AJ Wright, MLS Dept of Anesthesiology Library School of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham ajwright@uab.edu <mailto:ajwright@uab.edu> Anesthesia History Files http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm -----Original Message----- From: Margaret E. DeLacy [mailto:margaret@teleport.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:03 PM To: H-SCHOLAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: H-SCHOLAR: GRANTS: NEH/DHSS fellowships in healthcare studies awarded submitted by: Margaret DeLacy [Friends: This information was forwarded to me by Daniel Jones of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who attended our NCIS conference this fall. Note that one of the grant recipients is an independent scholar. Margaret DeLacy, H-Scholar editor] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jim Turner Monday, February 12, 2001 (202) 606-8671 SIX HUMANITIES SCHOLARS RECEIVE FEDERAL GRANTS TO EXAMINE HEALTH ISSUES National Endowment for the Humanities and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency form partnership to promote healthcare studies WASHINGTON--Six humanities scholars have received fellowships to study the relationship between the humanities and healthcare through a new partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the two agencies announced today. Five of the fellowships, of 9 to 12 months duration, are for $35,000. The sixth, 6 to 8 months long, is for $24,000. The stipends are provided through equal contributions from the two agencies. "Humanities scholars bring important perspectives to bear on health issues," said NEH Chairman William R. Ferris. "NEH's partnership with HHS's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will help place contemporary healthcare in a broad historical and philosophical context." "We are pleased to collaborate with the National Endowment for the Humanities to support these studies and future research at the intersection between the humanities and health," said John M. Eisenberg, M.D., AHRQ's director. "This research offers the essential cultural and historical context needed to understand the important role that health and healthcare play in our society, and also provides an important framework for the contributions to understanding ways to improve healthcare that are made by the health services research supported by AHRQ." The grantees are: ARIZONA Paul V. Dutton ($35,000) Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff (520) 523-8830 RESEARCH TOPIC: The effect of France's establishment of national medical insurance on the relationship between French doctors and insurance providers and on patient care, 1928-1945. CALIFORNIA Marcia L. Meldrum ($35,000) Independent scholar, Los Angeles, Calif. (310) 825-3888 RESEARCH TOPIC: 20th-century social attitudes toward pain. MASSACHUSETTS Lauri K. Umansky ($35,000) Suffolk University, Boston, Mass. (617) 573-8120 RESEARCH TOPIC: Post-World War II social attitudes toward physically disabled mothers. MISSOURI Nancy Cervetti ($24,000) Avila College, Kansas City, Mo. (816) 942-8400 RESEARCH TOPIC: The letters of S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), neurologist renowned for his studies of Civil War gunshot wounds and of hysteria. NEW YORK G. Thomas Couser ($35,000) Hofstra University, New York, N.Y. (516) 463-5454 RESEARCH TOPIC: Ethical issues involved in writing about the lives of people rendered mute by disabilities. Frances M. Kamm ($35,000) New York University, New York, N.Y. (212) 998-8331 RESEARCH TOPIC: Permissible harm, patients rights, and ethical issues in the rationing of scarce healthcare resources. Applications for the second round of AHRQ-NEH fellowships, for the year 2001-2002, are now being accepted. Stipends of up to $40,000 will be provided. The application deadline is May 1, 2001. Applications must be submitted to NEH. The fellowship program description and application materials are online at http://www.neh.gov/grants/onebook/fellowships.html. Send inquiries by email to fellowships@neh.gov or call NEH program officer Daniel Jones at (202) 606-8217. Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature, philosophy and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom learning, create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs in libraries and other community places. AHRQ, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, improve patient safety, address medical errors, and broaden access to essential services. AHRQ sponsors and conducts research that provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes; quality; and cost, use, and access. # # # --- End Forwarded Message ---