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.Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes

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 2022 Kregg Hetherington The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops2023Michele Ilana FriednerSensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India2024Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David HerzbergWhiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America2025https://4sonline.org/2025_emily_yates-doerr.phpEmily Yates-DoerrMal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm 2026 - Angela Frederickhttps://4sonline.org/2026_angela_frederick.php

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