Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)

The Rachel Carson Prize is awarded annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science, an international academic association based in the United States. It is given for a book "of social or political relevance" in the field of science and technology studies. This prize was created in 1996.[1]

For the award for a female environmentalist, see Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award).
Rachel Carson Prize
Awarded forA book "of social or political relevance" in the field of science and technology studies
Sponsored bySociety for Social Studies of Science
Date1998 (1998)
Websitewww.4sonline.org/prizes/carson

Honorees
YearRecipientAwarded work
1998Diane VaughanThe Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
1999Steven EpsteinImpure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
2000Wendy EspelandThe Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
2001Andrew HoffmanFrom Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
2002Stephen HilgartnerScience On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
2003Simon ColeSuspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
2004Jean LangfordFluent Bodies
2005Nelly OudshoornThe Male Pill
2006Joseph DumitPicturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
2007Charis ThompsonMaking Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
2008Joseph MascoThe Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
2009Jeremy GreenePrescribing by Numbers
2010Susan GreenhalghJust One Child
2011Lynn M. MorganIcons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
2012Stefan HelmreichAlien Oceans
2013Tim ChoyEcologies of Comparison
2014Robert N. ProctorGolden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
2015Gwen OttingerRefining Expertise. How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
2016Gabrielle HechtBeing Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
2017Adia BentonHIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
2018Kalindi VoraLife Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
2019Aya KimuraRadiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination
2020Sara WylieFractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds

References
  1. Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes
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