Author: Stefan Ecks

Stefan Ecks co-founded Edinburgh University’s Medical Anthropology programme. He teaches social anthropology in the School of Social & Political Sciences. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in India, Nepal, Myanmar, and the UK. Recent work explores value in global pharmaceutical markets, changing ideas of mental health in South Asia, multimorbidity, poverty, and access to health. Publications include Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India (New York University Press, 2013) and Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets (Duke University Press, 2022), as well as many journal articles on the intersections between health and economics.

Stefan Ecks

“You hurt our monuments, you hurt our heroes, you go to jail for ten years”: Contested histories at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021

July, 2022 / By Stefan Ecks

Minutes before Trump told his supporters to march on the US Capitol and to “fight like hell,” he reminded them […]