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Veins of devotion : blood donation and religious experience in north India / Jacob Copeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Copeman, Jacob.
- , Rutgers University Press, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in medical anthropology.
- Studies in medical anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blood--Collection and preservation--India--Delhi.
- Blood.
- Blood donors--India--Delhi.
- Blood donors.
- Blood--Social aspects--India--Delhi.
- Blood--Religious aspects.
- Kinship--India--Delhi.
- Kinship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Jacob Copeman is a research fellow at Jesus College at Cambridge University in England.
- Summary:
- According to public health orthodoxy, blood for transfusion is safer when derived from voluntary, nonremunerated donors. As developing nations phase out compensated blood collection efforts to comply with this current policy, many struggle to keep their blood stores up. Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates the practice within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity. Despite tensions between blood banks and these religious groups, their collaboration is a remarkable success storyùthe nation's blood supply is replenished while blood donors discover new devotional possibilities.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Generative generosity
- The reform of the gift
- Devotion and donation
- Blood donation in the zone of religious spectacles
- Utility saints and donor-soldiers
- The nehruvian gift
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-225) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-95875-1
- 9786611958756
- 0-8135-4596-X
- OCLC:
- 437241552
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