Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets

by Stefan Ecks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017678
• ISBN13: 9781478017677
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"