Living worth : value and values in global pharmaceutical markets /

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"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�...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ecks, Stefan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Critical global health.
Subjects:
Depressed persons > India.
Antidepressants > India.
Antidepressants > Economic aspects > India.
Mental health > Economic aspects > India.
Depression, Mental > Treatment > India.
Pharmaceutical industry > Economic aspects > India.
Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects > India.
Santé mentale > Aspect économique > Inde.
Dépression > Traitement > Inde.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect économique > Inde.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect moral > Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Antidepressants
Depressed persons
Depression, Mental > Treatment
Mental health > Economic aspects
Pharmaceutical industry > Economic aspects
Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects
India
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 & 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.

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