{"product_id":"living-worth-9781478017677","title":"Living Worth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefan Ecks explores depression and antidepressant uses in India to develop a theory of value that captures both market worth and cultural and ethical norms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this fascinating, timely, and provocative new book, Stefan Ecks uses ethnographic examples of depression and the use of antidepressants in India to rethink anthropological and economic theory. Conceptually bold and empirically grounded, \u003ci\u003eLiving Worth\u003c\/i\u003e upends capitalist assumptions that underpin global mental health and offers a new and vital way to think about how embodiment comes to matter.” -- Julie Livingston, author of * Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa *\u003cbr\u003e“Stefan Ecks shows us, yet again, why he is the leading theorist of globalizing minds and their pharmaceutical anodynes. In \u003ci\u003eLiving Worth\u003c\/i\u003e, he takes readers on a tour de force through case studies of depression and of global psychopharmaceuticals to show how the values of brains and feelings become enmeshed with the larger values that capitalism places on currencies and commodities. The result is an absolute work of genius, and a must-read for anyone concerned about how we think and feel and the social practices and economies through which our thoughts and feelings come to matter.” -- Jonathan M. Metzl, author of * Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Embodied Value Theory  11\u003cbr\u003e 2. Relative Value: Culture, Comparison, Commensurability  36\u003cbr\u003e 3. Never Enough: Markets in Life  57\u003cbr\u003e 4. Making a Difference: Corporate Social Responsibility  79\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pharmaceutical Citizenship, Marketing, and the Global Monoculture of Health  98\u003cbr\u003e 6. What Drugs Do in Different Spaces: Global Spread and Local Bubbles  117\u003cbr\u003e 7. Acting through Other (Prescribing) Habits  136\u003cbr\u003e 8. Culture, Context, and Consensus: Comparing Symptoms and Things  156\u003cbr\u003e 9. Generic: Distinguishing Good Similarity from Bad Similarity  175\u003cbr\u003e 10. Same Ills, Same Pills: Genealogies of Global Mental Health  194\u003cbr\u003e 11. Failed Biocommensurations: Psychiatric Crises after DSM-5  214\u003cbr\u003e References  235\u003cbr\u003e Index  269","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409006633303,"sku":"9781478017677","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017677.jpg?v=1730505064","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-worth-9781478017677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}