Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)
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
- 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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