Description: Living Worth : Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets, Paperback by Ecks, Stefan, ISBN 1478017678, ISBN-13 9781478017677, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 ofsocial, 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"--
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Book Title: Living Worth : Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Living Worth : Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Internal Medicine, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical, History
Author: Stefan Ecks
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
