I myself would agree with the reviewer. He is simply setting up a straw man. The Eileen Basker Memorial Prize was established by the Society for Medical Anthropology to promote excellence in research on gender and health . The Basker Prize is made annually to scholars from any discipline or nation, for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional Ph.D. thesis produced within the preceding three years . The Prize is publicly announced during the Society for Medical Anthropology Business Meeting, held during the annual American Anthropological Association Meeting.
Winners receive a cash award.
The Basker Prize is awarded to the work judged to be the most courageous, significant, and potentially influential contribution to scholarship in the area of gender and health. The Basker Prize committee very strongly encourages all interested persons to submit a nomination for the 2001 Competition. Self-nomination is not permitted, and works submitted without an accompanying letter of nomination cannot be considered. To recognize and reward scholarly achievement in medical anthropology, the Society for Medical Anthropology has created the WHR Rivers Undergraduate Student Paper Prize and the Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize. Prizes are awarded during the Business Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology.