04805nam a22005775i 4500 978-981-97-3500-6 DE-He213 20251030112343.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240630s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819735006 978-981-97-3500-6 10.1007/978-981-97-3500-6 doi Q175.4-.55 JF bicssc SOC000000 bisacsh JB thema The Social Life of Health Data [electronic resource] : Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana / edited by Alena Thiel, Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 179 p. 9 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1 Developing an interdisciplinary reading of Ghanaian health data histories: An introduction -- Chapter 2 Narratives on health policies in northern Ghana: A note on British colonial policy and local knowledge systems, 1902-1945 -- Chapter 3 “Campaign”: A history of the Medial Field Unit in Ghana -- Chapter 4 Mental health in Ghana: Standardisation, advocacy and changing perceptions of care and disease -- Chapter 5 Traditional medicine in Ghana: Statistical production and professionalisation of practitioners, practice, and products -- Chapter 6 Hepatitis B virus infection and the Ghanaian healthcare worker: Risk, standardisation, and disease Prevention -- Chapter 7 Health-in-all, data harmonisation, and cross-sectoral collaboration in Ghana’s health sector -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: health data’s social life. 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. Alena Thiel is an anthropologist whose work covers public sector digitalization, statistical production and the development of health information systems in Ghana. She leads the project “How Democracies Know: Identification Technologies and Quantitative Analyses of Development in Ghana” and is affiliated Senior Researcher in the project “African Technoscapes”. Samuel Ntewusu has worked with the University of Ghana, Accra as a Research Assistant and later as a faculty member teaching African History from earliest times to the present. He has recently been appointed as the Director of the Institute of African Studies. Science Social aspects. 69032 Medical anthropology. 79700 Social medicine. 62456 Political sociology. 57999 Africa History. 71617 Science and Technology Studies. 69033 Medical Anthropology. 79701 Medical Sociology. 57827 Political Sociology. 57999 African History. 71619 Thiel, Alena. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 79702 Ntewusu, Samuel Aniegye. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 79703 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819734993 Printed edition: 9789819735013 Printed edition: 9789819735020 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3500-6 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 61190 61190