Stefan Ecks Author

Stefan Ecks is Director of the Anthropology of Health & Illness Programme and a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on health and medicine in India since 1999, focusing on postcolonial notions of body, health and healing. From 2006 to 2009, he was Co-Investigator in the ESRC/DFID-funded project Tracing Pharmaceuticals in South Asia that studies the trajectories of key drugs through production, distribution, prescription and consumption in India and Nepal.