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]
Honorees
Year |
Recipient |
Awarded work
|
1998 |
Diane Vaughan |
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
|
1999 |
Steven Epstein |
Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
|
2000 |
Wendy Espeland |
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
|
2001 |
Andrew Hoffman |
From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
|
2002 |
Stephen Hilgartner |
Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
|
2003 |
Simon Cole |
Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
|
2004 |
Jean Langford |
Fluent Bodies
|
2005 |
Nelly Oudshoorn |
The Male Pill
|
2006 |
Joseph Dumit |
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
|
2007 |
Charis Thompson |
Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
|
2008 |
Joseph Masco |
The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
|
2009 |
Jeremy Greene |
Prescribing by Numbers
|
2010 |
Susan Greenhalgh |
Just One Child
|
2011 |
Lynn M. Morgan |
Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
|
2012 |
Stefan Helmreich |
Alien Oceans
|
2013 |
Tim Choy |
Ecologies of Comparison
|
2014 |
Robert N. Proctor |
Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
|
2015 |
Gwen Ottinger |
Refining Expertise. How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
|
2016 |
Gabrielle Hecht |
Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
|
2017 |
Adia Benton |
HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
|
2018 |
Kalindi Vora |
Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
|
2019 |
Aya Kimura |
Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination
|
2020 |
Sara Wylie |
Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
|
2021 |
Laura Watts |
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga[2]
|
2022 |
Kregg Hetherington |
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops[3]
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