Veins of devotion : blood donation and religious experience in north India / Jacob Copeman.
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TextSeries: Studies in medical anthropologyPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Blood -- Collection and preservation -- India -- Delhi
- Blood donors -- India -- Delhi
- Blood -- Social aspects -- India -- Delhi
- Blood -- Religious aspects
- Kinship -- India -- Delhi
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Blood Donors -- ethics
- Blood Specimen Collection -- ethics
- Community Participation
- Hinduism
- Religion and Medicine
- India
- Sang -- Collecte et conservation -- Inde -- Delhi
- Sang -- Aspect social -- Inde -- Delhi
- Sang -- Aspect religieux
- Parenté -- Inde -- Delhi
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- MEDICAL -- Pharmacology
- RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General
- Blood -- Collection and preservation
- Blood donors
- Blood -- Religious aspects
- Blood -- Social aspects
- Kinship
- India -- Delhi
- Blutspende
- Religion
- Indien -- Nord
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- RM171 .C588 2009eb
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- WH 460
- LC 29385
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
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.
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Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable 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 blood donation practices 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 devo.
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