Among practitioners of biomedicine, to speak of people as ‘marginalized’ often amounts to
saying that they do not have access to medical substances. Thus conceived, the best way to …

… Stefan Ecks illuminates how biomedical, Ayurvedic, and homeopathic treatments are used
… Based on several years of research on pharmaceutical markets, Ecks shows how doctors …

Medicine seems to collect evidence in ways entirely different from social anthropology. It aims
to gather ‘best evidence’ through large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and advanced …

Experiences of autism-spectrum disorder are now increasingly studied by social scientists.
Human–animal relations have also become a major focus of social inquiry in recent years. …

This paper analyses a remarkable transformation of global capitalism in recent years: that
corporations claim to be ‘good citizens’ and are driven by higher aspirations than profits alone. …

In India, psychopharmaceuticals have seeped deep into both formal and informal
pharmaceutical markets, and unlicensed “quack” doctors have become ready prescribers of …

Biomedicine tends to treat “mental” illnesses as if they could be isolated from multiple social
and somatic problems. Yet mental suffering is inseparable from complex somatosocial …

Antidepressant uses have been rising rapidly over the past decades. Two main theories have
been advanced to explain this. One claims that socio-economic change causes a global …

To date, the strongest predictor for dying with COVID‐19 is suffering from several chronic
disorders prior to the viral infection. Pre‐existing multimorbidity is highly correlated with …

We argue that predictions of a ‘tsunami’of mental health problems as a consequence of the
pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the lockdown are overstated; …