Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)

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Rachel Carson Prize
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
Date	1998 (1998)
Website	www.4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/

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	Diane Vaughan	The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
1999	Steven Epstein	Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
2000	Wendy Espeland	The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
2001	Andrew Hoffman	From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
2002	Stephen Hilgartner	Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
2003	Simon Cole	Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
2004	Jean Langford	Fluent Bodies
2005	Nelly Oudshoorn	The Male Pill
2006	Joseph Dumit	Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
2007	Charis Thompson	Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
2008	Joseph Masco	The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
2009	Jeremy Greene	Prescribing by Numbers
2010	Susan Greenhalgh	Just One Child
2011	Lynn M. Morgan	Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
2012	Stefan Helmreich	Alien Oceans
2013	Tim Choy	Ecologies of Comparison
2014	Robert N. Proctor	Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
2015	Gwen Ottinger	Refining Expertise. How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
2016	Gabrielle Hecht	Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
2017	Adia Benton	HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone
2018	Kalindi Vora	Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
2019	Aya Kimura	Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination
2020	Sara Wylie	Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
2021	Laura Watts	Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga^[2]
2022	Kregg Hetherington	The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops^[3]
2023	Michele Ilana Friedner	Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India
2024	Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg	Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

References

↑ Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes
↑ "Carson Prize 2021: Laura Watts". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
↑ "Carson Prize 2022: Kregg Hetherington". Society for Social Studies of Science. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2022.

v t e Rachel Carson
Books	Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) The Sea Around Us (1951) The Edge of the Sea (1955) Silent Spring (1962)
Life	Rachel Carson Homestead (birthplace, childhood home) Rachel Carson House (Colesville, Maryland)
Honors	Rachel Carson Award Rachel Carson Bridge Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Rachel Carson College Rachel Carson Greenway Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge Rachel Carson Playground Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize) Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award) Rachel Carson Reserve Rachel Carson Trail RV Rachel Carson (1977) RV Rachel Carson (2003) RV Rachel Carson (2008) RV Rachel Carson (2017) The Sea Around Us Statue of Rachel Carson (2013)
Related	The Sea Around Us (1953 documentary) The Forest Cathedral Marie Rodell

v t e Science and technology studies
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Science studies	Academic bias Antiscience Bibliometrics Boundary-work Consilience Criticism of science Demarcation problem Double hermeneutic Logology Mapping controversies Metascience Paradigm shift black swan events Pseudoscience Psychology of science Science citizen communication education normal Neo-colonial post-normal rhetoric wars Scientific community consensus controversy dissent enterprise literacy method misconduct priority skepticism Scientocracy Scientometrics Team science Traditional knowledge ecological Unity of science Women in science STEM
Technology studies	Co-production Cyborg anthropology Design studies Dematerialization Digital anthropology Digital media use and mental health Early adopter Engineering studies Financial technology Hype cycle Innovation diffusion disruptive linear model system user Leapfrogging Normalization process theory Media studies Reverse salient Skunkworks project Sociotechnical system Technical change Technocracy Technoscience feminist Technological change convergence determinism revolution transitions Technology and society criticism of dynamics theories of transfer Women in engineering
Policy	Academic freedom Digital divide Evidence-based policy Factor 10 Funding of science Horizon scanning Politicization of science Regulation of science Research ethics Right to science Science policy history of science of Technology assessment Technology policy Transition management
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