Psychopharmaceuticals in India

Analyses two specific processes of globalization that have had an impact on the changing nature of doctor-patient encounters in India.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Is India on Prozac? 2. Global capitalism and psychopharmaceuticals: A polyspherical history 3. Redefining India's 'culture-bound syndromes' in the age of antidepressants 4. Evanescent evidence, or: Is depression rising in India? 5. Unseen drug dissemination: rethinking the "treatment gap" 6. When psychotropics start to float 7. "Global corporate citizenship": benevolence or marketing manoeuvre? 8. Contestations of a global monoculture "true happiness" 9. Conclusion

About the author

Stefan Ecks is Director of the Anthropology of Health & Illness Programme and a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on health and medicine in India since 1999, focusing on postcolonial notions of body, health and healing. From 2006 to 2009, he was Co-Investigator in the ESRC/DFID-funded project Tracing Pharmaceuticals in South Asia that studies the trajectories of key drugs through production, distribution, prescription and consumption in India and Nepal.

Summary

Analyses two specific processes of globalization that have had an impact on the changing nature of doctor-patient encounters in India.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Ecks, Stefan (University of Edinburgh Ecks, Ecks Stefan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9780415590396
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59039-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series; Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, India, Psychopharmacology, Manufacturing industries, Pharmaceutical industries