Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)
Rachel Carson Prize | |
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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 |
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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
- 2018. Kalindi Vora, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
- 2017. Adia Benton, HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
- 2016. Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
- 2015. Gwen Ottinger, Refining Expertise. How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
- 2014. Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
- 2013. Tim Choy, Ecologies of Comparison
- 2012. Stefan Helmreich, Alien Oceans
- 2011. Lynn M. Morgan, Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
- 2010. Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child
- 2009. Jeremy Greene, Prescribing by Numbers
- 2008. Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
- 2007. Charis Thompson, Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
- 2006. Joseph Dumit, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
- 2005. Nelly Oudshoorn, The Male Pill
- 2004. Jean Langford, Fluent Bodies
- 2003. Simon Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
- 2002. Stephen Hilgartner, Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
- 2001. Andrew Hoffman. From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
- 2000. Wendy Espeland. The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
- 1999. Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
- 1998. Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
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