Article ID: CBB109122041

Courtesy work: Care practices for quality assurance in a cohort study (August 2019)

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Kalender, Ute (Author)
Holmberg, Christine (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 49
Issue: 4
Pages: 583-604


Publication Date: August 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health
Language: English

Accountability has become a buzzword in recent years, applied in such disparate fields as education, academia, international politics and economics. For cohort studies, epidemiological literature and guidelines put forward several ideals to assure the quality of the generated data to make it accountable. Social scientific scholarship in turn has shown that in practice, such demands can lead to tensions and needs for balance ‘on the ground’. We take such insights as a starting point to explore these balancing acts. Based on an ethnographic investigation into the examination and data-gathering situations and practices within a German cohort study, we suggest that ‘courtesy work’ is intrinsic to the development of accountable data as a foundation for the establishment and stabilization of epidemiological facts. As such, courtesy work is part of accountable care work in epidemiological studies, which is in turn a key part of the quality assurance practices that ensure the enrollment and maintenance of people in a study, as well as the production of standardized measurement results.

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Article Klaus Hoeyer; Susanne Bauer; Martyn Pickersgill (August 2019) Datafication and accountability in public health: Introduction to a special issue. Social Studies of Science (pp. 459-475). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Andreas Kolb
Amelang, Katrin
Wu, Chia-Ling
Jenna M. Grant
Dahdah, Marine Al
Hauskeller, Christine
Concepts
Medicine
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Health care
Public health
Epidemiology
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Taiwan
Ethiopia
Bangladesh
Thailand
Cambodia
Ghana
Institutions
Accountable Care Organizations (Medical care)
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