Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)

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Date 1998 (1998)
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 Official website www.4sonline.org/prizes/carson

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.

Honorees

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

References

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