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Human organ transplantation has several ethical, cultural and legal dimension. It provides a fertile ground for exploring a vast number of sociological questions such as, how are life and death defined? What is the symbolic significance of a body part? How is the giving and receiving of human organs perceived by the society? Should body parts be donated, given as a gift, or sold like a commodity? How does the state respond to these questions? This book examines ...
This book address the problem of Livestock in India from a sociological perspective and offers a culturally viable solution to convert the problem into an economic asset. An effort has been made to analyze the various socio-economic religious and political dimensions of the problem and thus provide a sociological solution usefully combining the various dimensions.