The Social Life of Health Data

Name: The Social Life of Health Data
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
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By Alena Thiel

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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.
The authors show that the contemporary hype around the datafication of health is neither new nor exceptional, but instead needs to be read in broader historical perspective. Through its unique combination of historical, sociological and ethnographic methods, the book shows that the regulation and standardization of health produces both mobilizations and demobilizations, as well as appropriations and resistances.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 196
Release Date:: 2025-07-01
Publication Date:: 2025-07-01
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9819735025
ISBN13:: 9789819735020
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 261 g
Height:: 148 cm
Width:: 210 cm
Thickness:: 11 cm

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