Copeman, Jacob <br/><br/>
Veins of devotion: blood donation and religious experience in north India 

 - New Delhi  Routledge  2012 
 - xiii, 270 p. 
 - Studies in medical anthropology .
<br/><br/> 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 Cope man 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 devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788189643225 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blood - Collection and preservation - India - Delhi<br/>Blood - Religious aspects<br/>Blood - Social aspects - India - Delhi<br/>Blood donors - India - Delhi<br/>Kinship - India - Delhi
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.3909546  / C6V3