Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)

For the award for a female environmentalist, see Rachel Carson Prize (environmentalist award).

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.

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/

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 Monocrops
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