Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize) explained

Rachel Carson Prize
Awarded For:A book "of social or political relevance" in the field of science and technology studies
Sponsor:Society for Social Studies of Science

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 The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
1999 Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
2000 The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
2001 From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
2002 Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
2003 Simon Cole Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
2004 Fluent Bodies
2005 The Male Pill
2006 Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
2007 Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
2008 The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
2009 Prescribing by Numbers
2010 Just One Child
2011 Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
2012 Alien Oceans
2013 Ecologies of Comparison
2014 Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
2015 Refining Expertise. How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
2016 Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
2017 HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
2018 Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
2019 Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination
2020 Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
2021 Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga[2]
2022 The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/rachel-carson-prize/ Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes
  2. Web site: Carson Prize 2021: Laura Watts . Society for Social Studies of Science . 3 November 2022.
  3. Web site: Carson Prize 2022: Kregg Hetherington . Society for Social Studies of Science . 3 November 2022.