Nancy Tomes

{{Short description|American historian, author and academic}}

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Nancy J. Tomes is an American historian, author, and Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2017 for Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers{{cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/awards-and-honors/historian-nancy-bancroft-talks-about-winning-prestigious-bancroft-prize/|title=Historian Nancy Tomes Talks About Winning Prestigious Bancroft Prize|publisher=Stony Brook University|date=May 26, 2017|website=SBU News|accessdate=January 7, 2019}} and Arthur Viseltear Award from the American Public Health Association for her distinguished body of scholarship in the history of public health.{{cite news|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/featuredpost/nancy-tomes-bancroft-prize/|title=Nancy Tomes Awarded Bancroft Prize for Her Latest Book|publisher=Stony Brook University|date=March 17, 2017|accessdate=January 7, 2019}} Tomes attended Oberlin College from 1970 to 1972. In 1974 she received a B.A. in history from University of Kentucky, Summa cum Laude. In 1978 she received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania where she worked with Charles E. Rosenberg.{{cite web|publisher=Messiah College|url=https://www.messiah.edu/events/event/1262/nancy_tomes_doctor_shoppers_from_problem_patients_to_model_citizens|title=Nancy Tomes, "Doctor Shoppers: From Problem Patients to Model Citizens"|date=September 27, 2018|accessdate=January 7, 2019}} In 2001 she received the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.{{cite web|url=https://hssonline.org/about/honors/watson-davis-and-helen-miles-davis-prize/|title=Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize|accessdate=January 7, 2019}} From 2012 to 2014 she served as the President of the American Association for the History of Medicine and currently gives lectures at the Messiah College.