Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets by Stefan Ecks (

Description: Living Worth by Stefan Ecks 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Living Worth Stefan Ecks draws on ethnographic research on depression and antidepressant usage in India to develop a new theory of value. Framing depressive disorder as a problem of value, Ecks traces the myriad ways antidepressants come to have value, from their ability to help make ones life worth living to the wealth they generate in the multibillion-dollar global pharmaceutical market. Through case studies that include analyses of the different valuation of generic and brand-name drugs, the origins of rising worldwide depression rates, and the marketing, prescription, and circulation of antidepressants, Ecks theorizes value as a process of biocommensuration. Biocommensurations-transactions that aim or claim to make life better-are those forms of social, medical, and corporate actions that allow value to be measured, exchanged, substituted, and redistributed. Eckss theory expands value beyond both a Marxist labor theory of value and a free market subjective theory, thereby offering new insights into how the value of lives and things become entangled under neoliberal capitalism. Author Biography Stefan Ecks is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India. Table of Contents 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 Review "In this fascinating, timely, and provocative new book, Stefan Ecks uses ethnographic examples of depression and the use of antidepressants in India to rethink anthropological and economic theory. Conceptually bold and empirically grounded, Living Worth upends capitalist assumptions that underpin global mental health and offers a new and vital way to think about how embodiment comes to matter." -- Julie Livingston, author of * Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa *"Stefan Ecks shows us, yet again, why he is the leading theorist of globalizing minds and their pharmaceutical anodynes. In Living Worth, he takes readers on a tour de force through case studies of depression and of global psychopharmaceuticals to show how the values of brains and feelings become enmeshed with the larger values that capitalism places on currencies and commodities. The result is an absolute work of genius, and a must-read for anyone concerned about how we think and feel and the social practices and economies through which our thoughts and feelings come to matter." -- Jonathan M. Metzl, author of * Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing Americas Heartland *"In Living Worth, Ecks covers much ground, making it useful to scholars across the social sciences." -- Steven Server * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences * Review Quote "Stephan Ecks shows us, yet again, why he is the leading theorist of globalizing minds and their pharmaceutical anodynes. In Living Worth , he takes readers on a tourdeforce through case studies of depression and of global psychopharmaceuticals to show how the values of brains and feelings become enmeshed with the larger values that capitalism places on currencies and commodities. The result is an absolute work of genius, and a must-read for anyone concerned about how we think and feel and the social practices and economies through which our thoughts and feelings come to matter." Details ISBN1478017678 Author Stefan Ecks Short Title Living Worth Publisher Duke University Press Series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1478017678 ISBN-13 9781478017677 Format Paperback Subtitle Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 9 illustrations Pages 288 Publication Date 2022-03-18 AU Release Date 2022-03-18 NZ Release Date 2022-03-18 US Release Date 2022-03-18 UK Release Date 2022-03-18 Alternative 9781478015048 DEWEY 338.4761510954 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159400797;

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