Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. METRICS OF THE GLOBAL SOVEREIGN. Numbers and Stories in Global Health 19
5. PART I. GETTING GOOD NUMBERS
6. 2. ESTIMATING DEATH. A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in Malawi 57
7. 3. THE OBLIGATION TO COUNT. The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality in Nigeria 82
8. PART II. METRICS POLITICS
9. 4. THE POWER OF DATA. Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike 105
10. 5. NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY BY THE NUMBERS. The Metrics of Yup’ik Behavioral Health Programs 125
11. PART III. METRICS ECONOMICS
12. 6. METRICS AND MARKET LOGICS OF GLOBAL HEALTH 147
13. 7. WHEN GOOD WORKS COUNT 163
14. PART IV. STORIED METRICS
15. 8. WHEN NUMBERS AND STORIES COLLIDE. Randomized Controlled Trials and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration 181
16. 9. THE TYRANNY OF THE WIDGET. An American Medical Aid Organization’s Struggles with Quantification 203
17. Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? 225
18. References 231
19. Contributors 253
20. Index 255