Veins of devotion : blood donation and religious experience in north India /

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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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Copeman, Jacob
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Series:Studies in medical anthropology.
Subjects:
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
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 > Social aspects.
Kinship.
Blutspende
Religion
India
India > Delhi.
Indien > Nord
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
ISBN:9780813545967
081354596X
1281958751
9781281958754
9786611958756
6611958754

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