| The Ludwik Fleck Prize | |
| Awarded For: | Published book in science and technology studies |
| Presenter: | Society for the Social Studies of Science |
| Year: | 1992 |
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.[1] [2]
The prize is named after the Polish microbiologist and sociologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), author of Genèse et développement d'un fait scientifique (1935), which influenced Thomas Samuel Kuhn's conception of the history of science, constructivist epistemology, and various fields of research such as the sociology of science, the sociology of scientific knowledge, science studies and the social construction of technologies.
| Year | Recipient | Awarded work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance[3] | ||
| 1995 | Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science | ||
| 1996 | A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in 17th Century England[4] | ||
| 1997 | Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life[5] | ||
| 1998 | Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution | ||
| 1999 | Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (published 1996) | ||
| 2000 | Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and 'the Problems of Sex' | ||
| 2001 | Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge[6] | ||
| 2002 | Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code | ||
| The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change | |||
| 2003 | Science and an African Logic[7] | ||
| 2004 | The Body Multiple[8] | ||
| 2005 | Biomedical Platforms[9] | ||
| 2006 | The Effortless Economy of Science? | ||
| 2007 | Memory Practices in the Sciences | ||
| 2008 | Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty | ||
| 2009 | Inclusion: Politics of Difference in Medical Research | ||
| 2010 | The Collectors of Lost Souls. Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen | ||
| 2011 | Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s | ||
| 2012 | Insectopedia | ||
| 2013 | Cosmopolitics | ||
| 2014 | Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 | ||
| 2015 | |||
| 2016 | Ghost Stories for Darwin[10] | ||
| 2017 | Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism[11] | ||
| 2018 | Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics (published 2014).[12] | ||
| 2019 | The Economization of Life | ||
| 2020 | Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal[13] | ||
| 2021 | The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds[14] | ||
| 2022 | Genetically Modified Democracy |