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/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/

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

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
2021Laura WattsEnergy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga[2]
2022Kregg HetheringtonThe Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops[3]

References

  1. Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes
  2. "Carson Prize 2021: Laura Watts". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  3. "Carson Prize 2022: Kregg Hetherington". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
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