Tracing pharmaceuticals in India : Production, distribution and regulation

Stefan Ecks is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Co-Director of the medical anthropology programme at the University of Edinburgh. He studied anthropology, sociology, and philosophy at the University of Göttingen, the University of California at Berkeley, the School of Oriental & African Studies, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and earned a PhD from the London School of Economics. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on health and medicine in India since 1999. His current work looks at emerging forms of pharmaceutical uses, evidence-based medicine, and global corporate citizenship in South Asia. From 2006 to 2009, he was Co-Investigator in the ESRC/DFID-funded project “Tracing Pharmaceuticals in South Asia” that examined the trajectories of key drugs through production, distribution, prescription and consumption in India and Nepal. He held visiting fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley and the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg, and is member of the Editorial Boards of Medical Anthropology and Anthropology & Medicine.