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Ludwig Fleck Prize

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First awarded
  
1992

Awarded for
  
Published book in science and technology studies

Presented by
  
Society for the Social Studies of Science

Official website
  
http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/fleck

The Ludwik Fleck Prize is an annual award given for a book in the field of science and technology studies. It was created by the 4S Council (Society for the Social Studies of Science) in 1992 and is named after microbiologist Ludwik Fleck.

Prize Winners

  • 2016. Banu Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin
  • 2015. Løchlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
  • 2014. Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
  • 2013. Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics
  • 2012. Hugh Raffles, Insectopedia
  • 2011. Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s
  • 2010. Warwick Anderson. The Collectors of Lost Souls. Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
  • 2009. Steven Epstein. Inclusion: Politics of Difference in Medical Research
  • 2008. Michelle Murphy. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
  • 2007. Geoffrey Bowker. Memory Practices in the Sciences
  • 2006. Philip Mirowski. The Effortless Economy of Science?
  • 2005. Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio. Biomedical Platforms
  • 2004. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple
  • 2003. Helen Verran. Science and an African Logic
  • 2002. Randall Collins . The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
  • 2002. Lily E. Kay. Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code
  • 2001. Karin Knorr-Cetina Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge
  • 2000. Adele E. Clarke Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and 'the Problems of Sex'
  • 1999. Donna J. Haraway. 1996. Modest Witness, Second-Millennium: Femaleman Meets Oncomouse: Feminism and Technoscience
  • 1998. Peter Dear. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution
  • 1997 Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
  • 1996 Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in 17th Century England
  • 1995 Londa Schiebinger, Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
  • 1994 Donald A. MacKenzie, Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

    • References

    Ludwig Fleck Prize Wikipedia
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