For the award for a female environmentalist, see Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award).

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]

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.