Diagnosing Diabetes, Diagnosing Colonialism: An Ethnography of the Classification and Counting of a Senegalese Metabolic Disease

This article explores the top-down production of the statistics frequently circulated in global health. These data must first originate in a place like the public hospital in Saint-Louis, Senegal, in doctor’s offices and laboratories and medical archives. At their root, these data are an accumulatio...

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Main Author: Emma N Bunkley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2021-08-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5137