Introduction / Vincanne Adams 1
1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global
Health / Vincanne Adams 19
Part I. Getting Good Numbers
2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics
in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland 57
3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal
Mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan 82
Part II. Metrics Politics
4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese
Data Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor 105
5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik
Behavioral Health Programs / Molly Hales 125
Part III. Metrics Economics
6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson
147
7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover 163
Part IV. Storied Metrics
8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials
and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans
Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris 181
9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid
Organization's Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn 203
Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams
225
References 231
Contributors 253
Index 255
Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco.
"[T]his volume is insightful, engaging and impressive. . . . I
highly recommend this enlightening and ethnographically rich book.
It is a must read for both medical anthropologists and global
health practitioners, and would make an excellent addition to the
reading list for graduate classes in medical anthropology or global
health." -- Lauren Wallace * Anthropology Book Forum *
"[T]his volume will hopefully help stimulate policymakers and
researchers to think seriously about whether playing the numbers
game is sufficient, either for patients or their clinicians." --
Thomas Christie Williams * LSE Review of Books *
"Metrics is a thoughtful book that powerfully maps some of
the problems that accompany the effort to ground GH in metrics. It
is obligatory reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary
world health." -- Tobias Rees * Bulletin of the History of Medicine
*
"Metrics offers a lucid, revealing, and sometimes unnerving
tour of global health's quantitative terrain. Its authors take
pains to emphasize that they are not opposed to measurement.
Rather, they argue for the need to recognize the limits of numbers
and the continuing significance of other forms of knowing. From the
perspective of medical anthropology this is a vital book." -- Peter
Redfield * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
"Adams' edited book makes a crucial contribution not only to those
debates but also to the anthropology and sociology of evidence and
measurement and to the social studies of science and medical
humanities. Quite importantly, Metrics opens up a new field
of inquiry and prompts us to think about how other kinds of metrics
and 'storied numbers' are produced, experienced and valued and how
they could be (re)imagined in the future." -- Angela Marques Filipe
* Sociology of Health & Illness *
"Taken together, this volume offers a useful primer on the role of
metrics in shaping the work of global health actors at the macro,
meso, and micro levels. The individual case studies offer
theoretically and empirically rich examples that would be useful
for scholars working in this area and for inclusion in an
upper-level undergraduate class." -- J. Lynn Gazley * Contemporary
Sociology *
"Metrics is a call to preserve the spaces and experiences
that exceed numerical data and counting, and to remain committed to
methods and representations that might amplify them....
Metrics is crucial reading for those who eschew and embrace
numbers alike."
-- Cal Biruk * PoLAR *
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