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Author:   Jacob Copeman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415742399

ISBN 10:   0415742390
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   03 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: South Asian tissue economies 2. Blood splattered Bengal: The spectacular spurting blood of the Bangladeshi cinema 3. Writing the disaster: substance activism after Bhopal 4. Portraits of substance: image, text and intervention in India’s sanguinary politics 5. Forbidden exchanges and gender: implications for blood donation during a maternal health emergency in Punjab, Pakistan 6. Citizens in the commons: blood and genetics in the making of the civic 7. The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia 8. Interweaving fragments of ethical publicity and ethical resistance: the quest for cadaver organs in India 9. Afterword: Given over to demand: excorporation as commitment

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Jacob Copeman is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India (2009). His edited and co-edited works include Blood Donation, Bioeconomy, Culture (2009), The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2012), and Social Theory After Strathern (2014).

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