Data Performativity, Performing Health Work: Malaria and Labor in Senegal

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 436-448

  Tichenor, Marlee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data; global health; labor; malaria; performativity; Senegal

Indexed keywords

ETHNOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENEGAL;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SENEGAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85018351747     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2017.1316722     Document Type: Article

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