Living worth : value and values in global pharmaceutical markets / Stefan Ecks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ecks, Stefan, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Critical global health

Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressed persons--India.

Depressed persons.

Antidepressants--India.

Antidepressants.

Antidepressants--Economic aspects--India.

Mental health--Economic aspects--India.

Mental health.

Depression, Mental--Treatment--India.

Depression, Mental.

Pharmaceutical industry--Economic aspects--India.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmaceutical industry--Moral and ethical aspects--India.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"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 one's 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. Ecks's theory expands value beyond both a Marxist labor of 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Embodied Value Theory

Relative Value: Culture, Compassion, Commensurability

Never Enough: Markets in Life

Making a Difference: Corporate Social Responsibility

Pharmaceutical Citizenship, Marketing, and the Global Monoculture of Health

What Drugs Do in Different Spaces: Global Spread and Local Bubbles

Acting through Other (Prescribing) Habits

Culture, Context and Consensus: Comparing Symptoms and Things

Generic: Distinguishing Good Similarity from Bad Similarity

Same Ills, Same Pills: Genealogies of Global Mental Health

Failed Biocommensurations: Psychiatric Crises after DSM-5.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ecks, Stefan. Living worth.

ISBN:

9781478022282

1478022280

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.