Stefan Ecks
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an anthropology of what pharmaceuticals do in different places. New book: Living Worth (Duke UP 2022) https://t.co/AvYpmNidkC
Edinburgh
Joined May 2009
just published! How government-funded healthcare schemes in India never consider what poorer people actually value. We need an expanded & ethnographically grounded sense of healthcare value
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Since the 2000s, hundreds of government-funded health insurance (GFHI) schemes were introduced in India. These schemes are meant to prevent poorer households from incurring catastrophic health expe...
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RT @LinseyMcgoey: Just a quick anthropology appreciation text. I'm a sociologist + there's great oa work in our field led by @joe_dev + oth….
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RT @mwstephmair: Thanks to the @MBUWestofScot and Community PMHS committee for having us along to celebrate 20 years of incredible hard wor….
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RT @LacabeMartinez: It took some time to get my last article published, but I hope you enjoy it. It's a historical account of the controver….
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Framed across three distinct periods of the history of neoliberalism and the HIV epidemic in England, this article conducts a detailed examination of the concep...
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RT @avilasha_g: This brilliant piece by @stefanecks deals with a highly important and overlooked aspect of India’s public healthcare landsc….
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RT @differences_DUP: differences 34.3 is out now! — edited by Elizabeth Stewart, "Social Bonds and Catastrophic Acts" features essays from….
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RT @EconomicAnthro: 🎉 🎉🎉. It's here! We are thrilled to share the latest issue of Economic Anthropology—the first with @dansouleles at the….
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RT @Nikolas_S_Rose: Phew! Just sent the manuscript of Questioning Humanity: A Preface for the Human Sciences by Thomas Osborne and Nikolas….
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RT @CommunistSpectr: #BigPharma samt Lobbytätigkeit & enormen Profiten auf Patente lässt vermuten, dass der Wert von Medikamenten kaum auf….
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Welchen Wert haben Medikamente und Krankheiten in verschiedenen Kulturen? Warum wird Depressionen im Westen ein ganz anderer Wert beigemessen als im Osten? Und wie kommt er überhaupt zustande; der...
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Next Tuesday in Heidelberg: a hauntology of postcolonial trauma
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RT @Altostrata: @JDaviesPhD @stefanecks The UK's failed experiment in treating poverty with psychiatric drugs demonstrates the hollowness o….
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RT @janisward: @JDaviesPhD @stefanecks This is a brilliant article. Patients getting ill because they are treated, struck a real chord in m….
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RT @Angela_SocSci: Glad to see the latest issue of @biosocieties in print: Inc my paper on the social lives of psychostimulants! A multis….
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RT @eleanormorgan: @JDaviesPhD @stefanecks This is a fantastic paper. Speaks to what I’ve seen in a year of clinical work in a trauma servi….
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RT @JDaviesPhD: "In the UK, patients in poorer neighbourhoods do not 'lack access' to healthcare. If anything, they suffer from taking too….
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Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Biomedicine tends to treat “mental” illnesses as if they could be isolated from multiple social and somatic problems. Yet mental suffering is...
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more than 5000 reads to date! This article really seems to have hit a nerve.
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Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Biomedicine tends to treat “mental” illnesses as if they could be isolated from multiple social and somatic problems. Yet mental suffering is...
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Just published open access: 'Life is a gift: Value cosmologies in Hollywood cinema'. It's from a series of articles on how Hollywood portrays capitalism. Anthropological theories of value & exchange applied to narratives
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Is life “priceless,” or can life be bought and sold like a commodity? Anthropological theory has not yet been able to integrate incommensurable value with commensurable value. But such an integrated...
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