Walter Humann Wins Danny Jones Essay Contest
Second-year medical student Walter Humann is the winner of the 2015 Danny Jones History of the Health Sciences Student Essay Competition. A panel of three judges rated the six entries on the quality of writing, the comprehension of the issues, the clarity of discussion, and the applicability of the topic to the history of health care. His essay Medical Progress in the West: A Historical Perspective addresses the three eras of history in which medical developments struggled against societal norms.
Walter received his $500 prize and certificate at the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library Annual Dinner on November 5. He will present his research at a History of Medicine Society meeting next fall.
For more information on the Danny Jones History of the Health Sciences Student Essay Contest or the History of Medicine Society, contact Lisa Matye Finnie, Special Collections Librarian, at finnie@uthscsa.edu or 210-567-2406.