The David Zuck Memorial Prize of the History of Anaesthesia Society is awarded annually for the best paper or chapter in a book published the preceding year. The nominated item/items must:
1. Be on the history of anaesthesia, resuscitation, intensive care or pain management.
2. Be published in the English language in 2025.
3. Electronic publication is acceptable.
4. E publication ahead of print is acceptable, however, should this result in the electronic version being published in a different year from the print version, the manuscript will only be considered once, and only one version will be considered.
The nominator (if not self-nominated) must provide confirmation that the author has accepted his/her publication being nominated. A maximum of two nominations from any one nominator will be considered.
Nominations should be sent by email to Doug Bacon: doug3312022a@gmail.com
The paper or chapter must be sent as an attachment: word-processed document or PDF. The winner is announced at the History of Anaesthesia Society’s annual scientific meeting.
Previous winners
2026 Winner: Dr AG McKenzie
Anaesthetic practice and mortality in Scotland compared to England from 1847 to 1914. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care2025; 53 (Issue 4 Suppl): 6-16.
2026 Honourable mention: Dr DJ Wilkinson
Jonathan GE Hinkle, Alkaform, and dental anesthesia apparatus: A new discovery, and perhaps the first practitioner of conscious sedation? Anesthesia and Analgesia 2025; 140: 590-595.
2025: Dr RP Haridas and Prof LE Mather
First British and Irish press reports of Surgical etherization. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2024; 139: 867-873.
2024: Dr MWM Strätling
The clinical introduction of the Roth-Dräger anesthesia apparatus to the United States (c.1903 - 1907) and early interaction with James Tayloe Gwathmey (1862- 1944) and Richard von Foregger (1872-1960). An example for under-recognized US-German discourse during the advent of modern anesthesia technology before World War 1 (1914-1918). The history of modem anesthesia technology - a critical reappraisal (Part V). In: The Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (ed). Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia. Kobe: Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, 2023, pp. 255-309.
2023: Dr PJ Featherstone
John Henry Evans, MD: Founding Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Anesthesia Research Society, and a forgotten pioneer of oxygen therapy. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2022; 135(2S): S18-S25.
2022: Dr RP Haridas
John Davies Thomas: Chloroformist in London and pioneer South Australian doctor. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2021; 49 (Issue 1 Suppl): 6-16.
2021: Dr AB Levin, Dr CM Ball and Dr PJ Featherstone
From cholera to COVID-19: How pandemics have shaped the development of anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2020; 48 (Issue 3 Suppl): 28-38.
2020: Dr A Keys
Dr Ian Hamilton McDonald, MB BS, DA, FANZCA: The evolution of paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2019; 47 (Issue 3 Suppl): 6-16.
2019: Dr MG Cooper, Ms AC Gebels, Dr RJ Bailey and Dr KM Whish
Unusual Partnerships: The Corfe-McMurdie Anaesthesia Inhaler of 1918 and the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2018; 46 (Issue 1 Suppl): 29-34.
2018: Dr GS Bause
The 2016 Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture: America's Doctor Anaesthetists (1862-1936) - Turning a Tide of Asphyxiating Waves. Journal of Anesthesia History 2017; 3: 12-18.
