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
• 2010. Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child
• 2009. Jeremy Greene, Prescribing by Numbers
• 2008. Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
• 2007. Charis Thompson, Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
• 2006. Joseph Dumit, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
• 2005. Nelly Oudshoorn, The Male Pill
• 2004. Jean Langford, Fluent Bodies
• 2003. Simon Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
• 2002. Stephen Hilgartner, Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
• 2001. Andrew Hoffman. From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
• 2000. Wendy Espeland. The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
• 1999. Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge.
• 1998. Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA.