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Volume 31, 2012 - Issue 4: Enumeration, Identity, and Health
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Global Health Business: The Production and Performativity of Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany

Susan L. EriksonFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 367-384 | Published online: 02 Jul 2012

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