2013 IgNobel Prize in Public Health

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The winners of the 2013 IgNobel Prizes have been announced and the awards ceremony was held yesterday, September 12, 2013. Of interest to Archive readers is the IgNobel Prize in PUBLIC HEALTH. It was awarded to Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde of Thailand, for the medical techniques described in their report "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam" — techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.

REFERENCE: "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam," by Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, American Journal of Surgery, 1983, no. 146, pp. 376-382.

One of our very own Archive members, Richard Wassersug was awarded the 2000 IgNobel Prize in Biology for his first-hand report, "On the Comparative Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles (http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/borealtoad/tadpoles.htm) from Costa Rica (http://www.inbio.ac.cr/es/biod/Biod.html)." [Published in The American Midland Naturalist (http://www.nd.edu/%7eammidnat/), vol. 86, no. 1, July 1971, pp. 101-9.]

The full list of prize winners since the very beginning of the awards in 1991 can be found at:

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2013