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 bra...

A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or whether—patients understand their prescribed drugs?Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward questioning from patients as possible. Wit...

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting ...

Les relations économiques et financières franco-allemandes ont leur spécificité qui en fait un champ d’étude à la fois varié et susceptible de maints prolongements. Cet ouvrage rassemble seize communications, également réparties entre les deux pays, dont plusieurs issues de recherches menées à partir de sources inédites. Toutes ont été présentées et discutées lors d’un colloque qui formait lui-même l’aboutissement de trois années durant lesquelles s’est réuni, au rythme de quatre à cinq sé...

Santiago war gestern!- Der erste Erfahrungsbericht eines Menschen, der in Deutschland gepilgert ist- Witzig geschrieben, und doch mit der nötigen Tiefe- Mit aktuellem Kartenmaterial über das deutsche Pilger-Wege-Netz und nützlichen AdressenRucksack auf, Haustür zu – und los! Um auf dem Jakobsweg zu pilgern, muss man nicht durch Pyrenäen, Meseta, Pamplona & Co.: Auch Deutschland ist durchzogen von einem ausgedehnten Wegenetz im Zeichen der Mu...