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Stefan Ecks is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where he co-founded the Medical Anthropology programme. His ethnographic research spans India, Nepal, Myanmar, and the UK, focusing on the intersections of health and economics. Key research areas include embodied theories of value, global pharmaceutical markets, depression concepts, healthcare accessibility in impoverished contexts, and the relationship between multimorbidity and chronic medication use.
Ecks's research examines how economic systems shape health experiences, with recent publications analyzing pharmaceutical markets, mental health in authoritarian regimes, and the valuation of life during crises like COVID-19. His work consistently bridges medical anthropology with political economy and cross-cultural psychiatry.
He has supervised 11 PhD students to completion on diverse medical anthropology topics including autism therapies, hair-pulling disorders, Alzheimer's care, social psychiatry in Peru, narcissism studies, Mexican herbalism, immigrant diabetes experiences, Mapuche healing traditions, post-conflict disability in Serbia, and Mauritian psychiatric linguistics.
