TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lin,Yi-Tang
TI  - Statistics and the language of global health: institutions and experts in China, Taiwan, and the world, 1917-1960 
T2  - Global health histories
SN  - 9781108991339 (ebook)
AV  - RA409 .L56 2022
U1  - 362.1072/7 23/eng/20220811
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Medical statistics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2022); Open Access
N2  - Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, this study investigates efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations, and international organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public health. Lin shows how these initiatives produced an international network of public health experts who, across various socioeconomic and political contexts, opted for different strategies when it came to setting global standards and translating local realities into numbers. Focusing on China and Taiwan between 1917 and 1960, Lin examines the reception, adaptation, and appropriation of international health statistics. She presents the dynamic interplay between numbers, experts, and policy-making in international health organizations and administrations in China and Taiwan. This title is also available as Open Access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991339
ER  -