Rachel Carson Prize Winners

The Rachel Carson Prize is awarded annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science, an international academic association based in the United St ...more

Winners

	HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone (A Quadrant Book) by Adia Benton 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade by Gabrielle Hecht 4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges by Gwen Ottinger 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition by Robert N. Proctor 4.30 avg rating — 117 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong by Timothy Choy 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien Seas: Oceans in Space by Michael Carroll (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos by Lynn M. Morgan 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China by Susan Greenhalgh 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease by Jeremy A. Greene 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco 4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology) by Charis Thompson 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity by Joseph Dumit 3.71 avg rating — 55 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making by Nelly Oudshoorn 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance by Jean M. Langford 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification by Simon A. Cole 3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama by Stephen Hilgartner 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism by Andrew J. Hoffman (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest (Chicago Series in Law and Society) by Wendy Nelson Espeland 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge by Steven Epstein 4.18 avg rating — 127 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughan 4.08 avg rating — 374 ratings Rachel Carson Prize (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars