title: Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize)
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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 |
  