The dominance of psychiatric practice in India and the relatively obscured homeopathic and Ayurvedic practices are the major issues explicated in Ecks’ Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India. Overcoming patients’ resistance to compliance is a major task of the Kolkata psychiatrists interviewed by Ecks, and they sought to deal with this by positing drugs as ‘mind food’. Ayurveda and homeopathy are also gradually sidelining their own philosophies and falling in line with biomedicine with respect to commodification and marketing of drugs. The biopolitics involved in the rising mood disorders in India and the concomitant increase in the prescription of mood medications is evidenced by the propagation of a ‘global monoculture of happiness’ by pharmaceutical companies, who instil the notion that pills have solutions to all social ills.

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书评：斯特凡·埃克斯（Stefan Ecks），在印度吃药物：心理药物的多元化。纽约，纽约：纽约大学出版社，2014年，75美元，221页。

在印度，精神科医师的统治地位以及顺势疗法和印度草药疗法的相对模糊是Ecks的“吃药”中所阐述的主要问题：印度的精神药物多元化。克服患者对依从性的抵抗力是Ecks采访的加尔各答精神科医生的一项主要任务，他们试图通过将药物定性为“心灵食品”来解决这一问题。阿育吠陀和顺势疗法也逐渐将自己的哲学置于一边，并在药物的商品化和销售方面与生物医学保持一致。制药公司传播的“全球幸福单一文化”证明了印度情绪高涨和情绪药物处方随之增加所涉及的生物政治学，这些公司灌输了药片可以解决所有社会疾病的观念。