The Diana Forsythe Prize
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2017 Encoding race, encoding class :
Indian IT workers in Berlin by Sareeta Amrute; honorable mention: Plastic bodies
: sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil by Emilia Sanabria
2016 Emergent ecologies by Eben Kirksey;
honorable mention: The impotence epidemic : men's medicine and sexual desire in
contemporary China by Everett Yuehong Zhang
2015
Hacker, hoaxer,
whistleblower, spy : the many faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman;
honorable mention: Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives,
and where to draw the line by Sharon Kaufman
2014 Malignant : how cancer becomes us
by S. Lochlann Jain; When experiments travel : clinical trials and the global
search for human subjects by Adriana Petryna (honorable mention)
2013
The life of cheese : crafting food
and value in America by Heather Paxson
2012
Sex cells : the
medical market for eggs and sperm by Rene Almeling
2011 Pretty modern : beauty, sex and
plastic surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmonds
2010 Birthing a mother : the surrogate
body and the pregnant self by Elly Teman
2009 Bipolar expeditions : mania and
depression in American Culture by Emily Martin
2008
Will to live :
AIDS therapies and the politics of survival by João Biehl
2007 Local babies, global science :
gender, religion and in vitro fertilization in Egypt by Marcia Inhorn
2006 Cultures@SiliconValley by Jan
English-Lueck
2005 Picturing personhood : brain scans
and biomedical identity by Joe Dumit
2003 When nature goes public : the
making and unmaking of bioprospecting in Mexico by Cori Hayden
2002 Lucy Suchman, for the body of her
work
2001 Silicon second nature : culturing
artificial life in a digital world by Stefan Helmreich
2000
David Hess, for the body of his work
1999
Testing women,
testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America by Rayna
Rapp