Veins of Devotion : Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India
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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Rutgers University Press
2009
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=258549&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: nlebk uiTerm: 258549 longDbName: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: btl: Veins of Devotion : Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India aug: au: Jacob Copeman sertl: Studies in Medical Anthropology isbn: 9780813544489 9780813544496 9780813545967 imageinfo: pubinfo: dt: @attributes: year: 2009 month: 01 day: 01 dtAvail: @attributes: year: 2014 month: 02 day: 04 pub: Rutgers University Press pubContract: Rutgers University Press place: New Brunswick, N.J. price: 0.01 limitsGroup: maxCheckoutDays: 1500 pda: N printPagesOffline: 100 printPagesOnline: 100 previewPages: 10000 prePubGroup: dewey: @attributes: class: 615.39095456 item: 615 .39095456 lc: @attributes: class: RM171 .C588 2009eb item: RM 171 .C588 2009eb artinfo: ui: 258549 301797166 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: EB doid: NL$258549$PDF caption: PDF download: Y tig: atl: Veins of Devotion : Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India ptl: Veins of Devotion aug: au: Jacob Copeman su: Blood--Religious aspects Kinship--India--Delhi Medicine--Religious aspects Blood--Collection and preservation--India--Delhi Blood donors--India--Delhi Blood--Social aspects--India--Delhi sug: subj: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General MEDICAL / Public Health RELIGION / Hinduism / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues Blood--Religious aspects Kinship--India--Delhi Medicine--Religious aspects Blood--Collection and preservation--India--Delhi Blood donors--India--Delhi Blood--Social aspects--India--Delhi ab: 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. Download open access ebook here. pubtype: eBook doctype: Book ougenre: Book language: English copyright: @attributes: flag: N copyrightText: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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