Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World
(Part of the Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Series)
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In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always "cooked" during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationships...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0822370743
ISBN13:9780822370741
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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