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Living Worth – Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets

Autor Stefan Ecks
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 mar 2022
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 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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ISBN-13: 9781478015048
ISBN-10: 1478015047
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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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