Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)
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Award
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)
| Rachel Carson Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | A book "of social or political relevance" in the field of science and technology studies |
| Sponsored by | Society for Social Studies of Science |
| Date | 1998 (1998) |
| Website | www |
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]
| 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] |
| 2023 | Michele Ilana Friedner | Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India |
| 2024 | Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg | Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America |
|2025 |Emily Yates-Doerr |Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm |}
References
- ↑ Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes
- ↑ "Carson Prize 2021: Laura Watts". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ↑ "Carson Prize 2022: Kregg Hetherington". Society for Social Studies of Science. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
