Ecks Living Worth

Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2228-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 285 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

Stefan Ecks explores depression and antidepressant uses in India to develop a theory of value that captures both market worth and cultural and ethical norms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ecks, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Embodied Value Theory 11
2. Relative Value: Culture, Comparison, Commensurability 36
3. Never Enough: Markets in Life 57
4. Making a Difference: Corporate Social Responsibility 79
5. Pharmaceutical Citizenship, Marketing, and the Global Monoculture of Health 98
6. What Drugs Do in Different Spaces: Global Spread and Local Bubbles 117
7. Acting through Other (Prescribing) Habits 136
8. Culture, Context, and Consensus: Comparing Symptoms and Things 156
9. Generic: Distinguishing Good Similarity from Bad Similarity 175
10. Same Ills, Same Pills: Genealogies of Global Mental Health 194
11. Failed Biocommensurations: Psychiatric Crises after DSM-5 214
References 235
Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Ecks is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India.