CADAVER DONATION AS ASCETIC PRACTICE IN INDIA

被引：12

作者：

Copeman, Jacob ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Social Anthropol, Cambridge, England

来源：

SOCIAL ANALYSIS | 2006年 / 50卷 / 01期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

asceticism; body donation; cremation; dissection; gift of life; organ donation; renunciation;

D O I：

10.3167/015597706780886085

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

This article explores emerging ascetic orientations toward utility and death in India. It chronicles the activities of an innovative organization that campaigns for cadaver donations for the purposes of organ retrieval and dissection by trainee doctors. This would entail dispensing with cremation, a mode of cadaver disposal newly characterized as wasteful. In order to counter 'cremation-lack', the asceticism of cadaver donation is accentuated by the organization. The group thereby reinterprets classical Hinduism according to the demands of 'medical rationality'. This produces a novel 'donation theology' and additionally serves to demonstrate the 'asceticism' by which all voluntary donors of body material are obliged to abide.

引用

页码：103 / 126

页数：24

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