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Spiro was awarded the "Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award for Scholarly Activities in the Humanities and History of Medicine." The awardee was expected to give a lecture. The folder contains photographs from the event, and a list of previous awardees from 1993 to 2003.

Spiro co-edited: Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds. Facing Death: Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

Spiro was on sabbatical in 1962-1963 in London, mainly at the Postgraduate Medical School. He communicated with the Section on Gastroenterology by means of dictaphone tapes, a new technology, that enabled a sturdy ring of red tape to be mailed. He corresponded mainly with Walter Thayer who transcribed the tapes. The folder contains the transcripts, a few other letters sent by Spiro, and two examples of the tapes and envelope-mailers.

On issues in current medicine as compared to 1944 when Spiro began medical school. Includes PowerPoint slides.

This category overlaps many other categories.

File of editorials, similar in content to his columns is incomplete. Folder contains an entire issue for June 1987.

Spiro published Howard M. Spiro et al, eds., Empathy and the Practice of Medicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).