Ludwik Fleck Prize

The Ludwik Fleck Prize is an annual award given for a book in the field of science and technology studies. It was created by the 4S Council (Society for the Social Studies of Science) in 1992 and is named after microbiologist Ludwik Fleck.[1][2]

The Ludwik Fleck Prize
Awarded for	Published book in science and technology studies
Presented by	Society for the Social Studies of Science
First awarded	1992
Website	http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/fleck

Prize Winners

Year	Recipient	Awarded work
1994	Donald A. MacKenzie	Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance[3]
1995	Londa Schiebinger	Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
1996	Steven Shapin	A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in 17th Century England[4]
1997	Theodore M. Porter	Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life[5]
1998	Peter Dear	Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution
1999	Donna J. Haraway	Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (published 1996)
2000	Adele E. Clarke	Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and 'the Problems of Sex'
2001	Karin Knorr-Cetina	Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge[6]
2002	Lily E. Kay	Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code
	Randall Collins	The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
2003	Helen Verran	Science and an African Logic[7]
2004	Annemarie Mol	The Body Multiple[8]
2005	Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio	Biomedical Platforms[9]
2006	Philip Mirowski	The Effortless Economy of Science?
2007	Geoffrey Bowker	Memory Practices in the Sciences
2008	Michelle Murphy	Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
2009	Steven Epstein	Inclusion: Politics of Difference in Medical Research
2010	Warwick Anderson	The Collectors of Lost Souls. Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
2011	Marion Fourcade	Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s
2012	Hugh Raffles	Insectopedia
2013	Isabelle Stengers	Cosmopolitics
2014	Helen Tilley	Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
2015	S. Lochlann Jain	Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
2016	Banu Subramaniam	Ghost Stories for Darwin[10]
2017	Judy Wajcman	Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism[11]
2018	Lundy Braun	Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics[12] (published 2014)
2019	Michelle Murphy	The Economization of Life

See also

• List of social sciences awards

References

1. Nieto-Galan, Agusti (2016). Science in the Public Sphere: A history of lay knowledge and expertise. Routledge. ISBN 9781138909519. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
2. "Ludwik Fleck Prize". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
3. Williams, Robin; Faulkner, Wendy; Fleck, James (1998). Exploring expertise : issues and perspectives. Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.]: Macmillan. p. xv. ISBN 9780333632277. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
4. Mazzotti, Massimo (2008). Knowledge as social order : rethinking the sociology of Barry Barnes ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Aldershot, England: Ashgate. pp. xi. ISBN 978-0754648635.
5. Kravel-Tovi, Michal; Moore, Deborah Dash (2016). Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life. Indiana University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780253020475. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
6. Calhoun, Craig; Rojek, Chris; Turner, Bryan (2005). The Sage handbook of sociology. London: Sage Publ. pp. xi. ISBN 9780761968214. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
7. Bennett, Tony; Healy, Chris (2013). Assembling Culture. Routledge. p. 208. ISBN 978-1138864498. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
8. Burri, Regula Valerie (2007). Biomedicine as Culture (Transferred to digital printing 2010. ed.). London: Routledge. p. 231. ISBN 978-0415883177. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
9. Atkinson, Paul; Glasner, Peter; Lock, Margaret (2009). The Handbook of Genetics & Society Mapping the New Genomic Era. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis. pp. xiv–xv. ISBN 978-0-203-92738-0. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
10. "4S Prizes: Fleck Prize 2016: Banu Subramaniam | Society for Social Studies of Science". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
11. "4S Prizes: Fleck Prize 2017: Judy Wajcman | Society for Social Studies of Science". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
12. "4S Prizes: Fleck Prize 2018: Lundy Braun | Society for Social Studies of Science". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-05-05.