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| awarded_for    = A book "of social or political relevance" in the field of [[science and technology studies]]
| sponsor        = [[Society for Social Studies of Science]]
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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.<ref>[https://www.4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/rachel-carson-prize/ Society for Social Studies of Science: Prizes]</ref>
==Honorees==
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! Year !! Recipient !! Awarded work
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| 1998 || [[Diane Vaughan]] || ''The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA''
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| 1999 || [[Steven Epstein (academic)|Steven Epstein]] || ''Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge''
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| 2000 || Wendy Espeland || ''The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest''
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| 2001 || [[Andrew Hoffman]] || ''From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism''
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| 2002 || Stephen Hilgartner || ''Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama''
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| 2003 || Simon Cole || ''Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification''
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| 2004 || Jean Langford ||''Fluent Bodies''
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| 2005 || Nelly Oudshoorn || ''The Male Pill''
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| 2006 || [[Joseph Dumit]] || ''Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity''
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| 2007 || [[Charis Thompson]] || ''Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies''
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| 2008 || Joseph Masco || ''The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico''
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| 2009 || [[Jeremy Greene]] || ''Prescribing by Numbers''
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| 2010 || Susan Greenhalgh || ''Just One Child''
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| 2011 || Lynn M. Morgan || ''Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos''
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| 2012 || [[Stefan Helmreich]] || ''Alien Oceans''
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| 2013 || Tim Choy || ''Ecologies of Comparison''
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| 2014 || [[Robert N. Proctor]] || ''Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition''
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| 2015 || Gwen Ottinger || ''Refining Expertise.  How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges''
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| 2016 || [[Gabrielle Hecht]] || ''Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade''
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| 2017 || [[Adia Benton]] || ''HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone''
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| 2018 || Kalindi Vora || ''Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor''
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| 2019 || Aya Kimura || ''Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination''
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| 2020 || Sara Wylie || ''Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds''
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| 2021 || Laura Watts || ''Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga''<ref>{{cite web |title=Carson Prize 2021: Laura Watts |url=https://www.4sonline.org/prize/carson-21/ |website=Society for Social Studies of Science |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref>
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| 2022 || Kregg Hetherington || ''The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops''<ref>{{cite web |title=Carson Prize 2022: Kregg Hetherington |url=https://www.4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/rachel-carson-prize/ |website=Society for Social Studies of Science |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref>
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|2023
|Michele Ilana Friedner
|''Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India''
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|2024
|[[Helena Hansen]], Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg
|''Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America''
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== References ==
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[[Category:Science and technology studies]]
[[Category:Sociology awards]]
[[Category:American non-fiction literary awards]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1996]]
[[Category:Rachel Carson|Prize]]