Ludwik Fleck Prize

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|name = The Ludwik Fleck Prize

|awarded_for = Published book in science and technology studies

|presenter = Society for the Social Studies of Science

|location =

|year = 1992

|website = {{URL|https://4sonline.org/ludwik_fleck_prize.php}}

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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.{{cite book|last1=Nieto-Galan|first1=Agusti|title=Science in the Public Sphere: A history of lay knowledge and expertise|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-138-90951-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VAy4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|accessdate=5 January 2017}}{{cite web|title=Ludwik Fleck Prize|url=http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/fleck|website=Society for Social Studies of Science|accessdate=6 January 2017}}

The prize is named after the Polish microbiologist and sociologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), author of Genèse et développement d'un fait scientifique (1935), which influenced Thomas Samuel Kuhn's conception of the history of science, constructivist epistemology, and various fields of research such as the sociology of science, the sociology of scientific knowledge, science studies and the social construction of technologies.

Prize Winners

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YearRecipientAwarded work
1994Donald A. MacKenzieInventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance{{cite book|last3=Fleck|first3=James|last1=Williams|first1=Robin|last2=Faulkner|first2=Wendy|title=Exploring expertise : issues and perspectives|date=1998|publisher=Macmillan|location=Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-333-63227-7|page=xv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29a-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PR15|accessdate=5 January 2017}}
1995Londa SchiebingerNature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
1996Steven ShapinA Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in 17th Century England{{cite book|last1=Mazzotti|first1=Massimo|title=Knowledge as social order : rethinking the sociology of Barry Barnes|date=2008|publisher=Ashgate|location=Aldershot, England|isbn=978-0-7546-4863-5|pages=xi|edition=[Online-Ausg.].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kOUGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11}}
1997Theodore M. PorterTrust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life{{cite book|last1=Kravel-Tovi|first1=Michal|last2=Moore|first2=Deborah Dash|title=Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life|date=2016|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-02047-5|page=254|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSFjDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA254|accessdate=6 January 2017}}
1998Peter DearDiscipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution
1999Donna J. HarawayModest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (published 1996)
2000Adele E. ClarkeDisciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and 'the Problems of Sex'
2001Karin Knorr-CetinaEpistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge{{cite book|last1=Calhoun|first1=Craig|last2=Rojek|first2=Chris|last3=Turner|first3=Bryan|title=The Sage handbook of sociology|date=2005|publisher=Sage Publ.|location=London|isbn=978-0-7619-6821-4|pages=xi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfP4twfRoK8C&pg=PR11|accessdate=6 January 2017}}
rowspan="2" | 2002Lily E. KayWho Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code
Randall CollinsThe Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
2003Helen VerranScience and an African Logic{{cite book|last1=Bennett|first1=Tony|last2=Healy|first2=Chris|title=Assembling Culture|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-138-86449-8|page=208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUHjAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA208|accessdate=6 January 2017}}
2004Annemarie MolThe Body Multiple{{cite book|last1=Burri|first1=Regula Valerie|title=Biomedicine as Culture|date=2007|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-415-88317-7|page=231|edition=Transferred to digital printing 2010.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bWTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|accessdate=6 January 2017}}
2005Peter Keating and Alberto CambrosioBiomedical Platforms{{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Paul|last2=Glasner|first2=Peter|last3=Lock|first3=Margaret|title=The Handbook of Genetics & Society Mapping the New Genomic Era.|date=2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=Hoboken|isbn=978-0-203-92738-0|pages=xiv-xv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLZ8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PR15|accessdate=6 January 2017}}
2006Philip MirowskiThe Effortless Economy of Science?
2007Geoffrey BowkerMemory Practices in the Sciences
2008Michelle MurphySick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
2009Steven EpsteinInclusion: Politics of Difference in Medical Research
2010Warwick AndersonThe Collectors of Lost Souls. Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
2011Marion FourcadeEconomists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s
2012Hugh RafflesInsectopedia
2013Isabelle StengersCosmopolitics
2014Helen TilleyAfrica as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
2015S. Lochlann JainMalignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
2016Banu SubramaniamGhost Stories for Darwin{{Cite web|url=http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/fleck2016|title=4S Prizes: Fleck Prize 2016: Banu Subramaniam {{!}} Society for Social Studies of Science|website=www.4sonline.org|access-date=2018-05-05}}
2017Judy WajcmanPressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism{{Cite web|url=http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/fleck2017|title=4S Prizes: Fleck Prize 2017: Judy Wajcman {{!}} Society for Social Studies of Science|website=www.4sonline.org|access-date=2018-05-05}}
2018Lundy BraunBreathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics (published 2014).{{cite web |title=Lundy Braun wins book award {{!}} Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine {{!}} Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/biomed/departments/pathology/news/2018/05/lundy-braun-wins-book-award |website=www.brown.edu |access-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127055143/https://www.brown.edu/academics/biomed/departments/pathology/news/2018/05/lundy-braun-wins-book-award|archive-date=27 January 2019}}
2019Michelle MurphyThe Economization of Life
2020Noémi TousignantEdges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal{{Cite web|title=Fleck Prize 2020: Noémi Tousignant|url=https://www.4sonline.org/prize/noemi-tousignant/|access-date=2022-11-03|website=Society for Social Studies of Science|language=en-US}}
2021Thom van DoorenThe Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds{{Cite web|title=Fleck Prize 2021: Thom van Dooren|url=https://www.4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/ludwik-fleck-prize/|access-date=2022-11-03|website=Society for Social Studies of Science|language=en-US}}
2022Aniket AgaGenetically Modified Democracy
2023

|Donovan Schaefer

|Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin

2024

|Shannon Cramm

|Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Clean up and the Politics of Impossibility

See also

References

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