Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Soc Stud Sci. 2019 Aug;49(4):459-475. doi: 10.1177/0306312719860202.
In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, , we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? And to whom, how and why does it count? Addressing such questions involves staying attentive to the technologies and infrastructures through which data come into being and are made available for multiple political agendas. Through a discussion of public health, accountability and datafication we present three key themes that unite the various papers as well as illustrate their diversity.
近年来，在许多国家，公共卫生都受到了某种形式的治理，据称这些治理旨在建立问责制。在本期特刊的开篇中，我们建议通过提出一系列看似简单的问题来开放问责制的集合，这些问题必然会产生复杂的答案：什么被计算？什么有价值？以及对谁、如何、为什么有价值？解决这些问题需要关注数据产生和可用于多种政治议程的技术和基础设施。通过对公共卫生、问责制和数据化的讨论，我们提出了三个关键主题，这些主题将各篇文章联系在一起，并说明了它们的多样性。
