Metrics : what counts in global health / Vincanne Adams, editor.

Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]

258 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Metrics of the global sovereign : numbers and stories in global health / Vincanne Adams -- Estimating death : a close reading of maternal mortality metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland -- The politics of monitoring maternal mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan -- The power of data : global malaria governance and the Senegalese data retention strike / Marlee Tichenor -- Native sovereignty by the numbers : the metrics of Yupik behavioral health programs / Molly Hales -- Metrics and market logics in global health / Susan Erikson -- When good works count / Lily Walkover -- When numbers and stories collide : randomized controlled trials and the search for ethnographic fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris -- The tyranny of the widget : an American medical aid organization's struggles with quantification / Pierre Minn -- Epilogue: What counts in good global health? / Vincanne Adams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.