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
Biography
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).
