Hematologies - The Political Life of Blood in India

Jacob Copeman is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Veins of Devotion.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1. Bloodscape of Difference

2. Sovereignty and Blood

3. Substantial Activisms

4. Hemo Economicus: From Blood Sacrifice to Blood Science?

5. The Broken World of Transfusion

6. Blood in the Time of the Civic

7. Hematic Futures

Notes

References

Index

About the author

Jacob Copeman is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Veins of Devotion.

Dwaipayan Banerjee is Assistant Professor in the program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Follow him on X @dwai_banerjee.

Summary

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...

Product details

• Authors: Dwaipayan Banerjee, Jacob Copeman, Jacob Banerjee Copeman, Jacob/ Banerjee Copeman
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781501745096
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4509-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Hämatologie, Medizinsoziologie, Indien, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte