Dec
16
2014
Intimate gifts and ‘bad’ deaths: Reflections on organ transplants, state and society in Gujarat
By Farhana Ibrahim
Discursive strategies around organ donation in India, as elsewhere, are bio-medical as well as religio-moral in nature. Given that cadaver transplants remain a largely untapped resource in India, this paper is concerned with the relative medical success and social acceptance of this mode of transplant among certain communities in contemporary Gujarat. Why is Gujarat a privileged site for this ethnography?
