Bøger af Jacob Copeman

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist...

Details collaborations between guruled devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. This book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events.