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Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets

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By (author): Stefan Ecks

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. Biocommensurationstransactions that aim or claim to make life betterare 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. See more
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  • Weight: 522g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781478015048

About Stefan Ecks

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

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