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The Social Life of Health Data: Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

The Social Life of Health Data: Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

Thiel, Alena
Ntewusu, Samuel Aniegye

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Public HealthAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9819734991
ISBN13: 9789819734993
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 30 2024
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.17 Depth: 8.39
Language: English

This book takes the contemporary moment of digital health infrastructuring in Ghana as a starting point to examine the genealogies of oral, paper-based and digital forms of knowledge production about health. In view of this multiplicity of forms, the chapters adopt a broad definition of health data that encompasses databases, statistics as well as oral and written records and reports about health. In addition to close historiographic insights into the interactions of indigenous and colonial ways of organising knowledge around health, the chapters explore contemporary ways in which medical professionals are mobilized or potentially demobilized by the standards, methods and calculative devices that accompany the increasing production of health data.

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