Talk:Lasker Award
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Please visit http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/awards.html for more accurate information about these awards. The awards are not only given to living persons, but also to organizations and publications. (See the sections on Public Service.) The article might be more interesting if you listed some of the winners; for example, Christopher Reeve was a 2003 recipient.
It might be interesting to note that a Lasker Award was given to Alcoholics Anonymous in 1951. The citation reads, in part, as follows:
- The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism.... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out.... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p.571, 4th ed., 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. —Chidom talk 12:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
