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Introduction / Vincanne Adams  1

1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health / Vincanne Adams  19

Part I. Getting Good Numbers

2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland  57

3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan  82

Part II. Metrics Politics

4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor  105

5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik Behavioral Health Programs / Molly Hales  125

Part III. Metrics Economics

6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson  147

7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover  163

Part IV. Storied Metrics

8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris  181

9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid Organization's Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn  203

Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams  225

References  231

Contributors  253

Index 255

Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.