Gathering points: Blood donation and the scenography of 'national integration' in India

Body and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-99

  Copeman, Jacob ^a,b  

^a JESUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Blood donation; Enumeration; India; Nationalism; Nehru; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949156107     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X09103438     Document Type: Article

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