| Rachel Carson Prize | |
| Awarded For: | A book "of social or political relevance" in the field of science and technology studies |
| Sponsor: | Society for Social Studies of Science |
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 | The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA | ||
| 1999 | 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 | 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 | Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity | ||
| 2007 | Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies | ||
| 2008 | Joseph Masco | The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico | |
| 2009 | Prescribing by Numbers | ||
| 2010 | Susan Greenhalgh | Just One Child | |
| 2011 | Lynn M. Morgan | Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos | |
| 2012 | Alien Oceans | ||
| 2013 | Tim Choy | Ecologies of Comparison | |
| 2014 | 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 | Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade | ||
| 2017 | 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 |