Veins of Devotion : : Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India /

Veins of Devotion : : Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India / / Jacob Copeman.

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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 rec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Copeman, Jacob,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 11
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR CONTENTS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Generative Generosity
  • 3. The Reform of the Gift
  • 4. Devotion and Donation
  • 5. Blood Donation in the Zone of Religious Spectacles
  • 6. Utility Saints and Donor-Soldiers
  • 7. The Nehruvian Gift
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Gurus and Organizations
  • References
  • Index

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