Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism

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Cover Title Page Copyright page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Introduction: blood donation and the range of historical and institutional trajectories An institutionalist analytical framework Blood donation: an organizational field? Book sections and chapters PART I Technology and the evolution of blood clinics 1 “What flows between us”: blood donation and transfusion in the United States (nineteenth to twentieth centuries) Introduction From the miracle of medicine to flourishing commerce Blood transfusion and fear of miscegenation The emergence of blood banks Brothers of blood Blood banks confronted with desegregation Opposition between two models of transfusion medicine Conclusion 2 History of transfusion in Africa: who gave blood? Introduction Early blood donation before independence Early blood donors: the British Red Cross in Africa Post-independence shift to hospital base and family replacement The 1970s and after: development of centralized, “voluntary” donation Conclusion 3 Public health works: blood donation in urban China Introduction The problem of HIV and blood donation in China Addressing the cultural and social impediments to blood donation Public health works Conclusion 4 The contaminated blood affair in France: a turning point in blood donation Introduction The end of universal donation: exclusions from blood donation Non-remunerated blood donation: myths and realities The gift and the market Concluding remarks PART II The institutional politics of donor recruitment 5 The marketing of blood donation in Canada: organizational discourse, practice, and symbolic tension in a blood donation clinic Introduction Theoretical approach Methods The Canadian blood system Donor recruitment and symbolic tension Managing the donor experience Resistance to corporate governance Discussion and conclusion 6 The influence of blood collection organizations on blood donation motivations and practices in Québec, Canada Introduction Kieran Healy’s (2006) concept of institutional regimes A constructivist approach for a better understanding of relationships of trust A cross-analysis of four surveys’ results Results: the essential role of blood collection organizations Conclusion 7 Religion, risk, and excess in the Indian blood donation encounter Introduction Context of donation Devotion and donation Transmissibility Harmonizing denial Conclusion PART III The governance of blood donation: the authority of state control 8 Linking medicine, industry, science, and politics: the history of French blood donor deferral criteria Introduction From early practice to “mass” blood donation: toward standardization of deferral criteria 1991 to 1996: the advent of health security and the primacy of the recipient Multiplication of regulatory spaces and actors: new constraints in the development of selection criteria? Conclusion 9 Blood donation in Australia: altruism and exclusion Introduction The national blood system Donors and donating Donor deferral policies Active citizenship, social exclusion, and risk Conclusion 10 A Latin American perspective on blood donation and transfusion systems Introduction An institutional analysis of Latin American collection systems Dissimilar social health conditions in Latin American countries Unmet needs for blood products Persistent risks of contamination The many factors underlying these problems Conclusion 11 “She is my blood”: donation and reciprocity in Trinidad Introduction Blood banking in Trinidad Anthropological approaches to blood donation Trinidadian perceptions of blood A crisis of collection Conclusion Conclusion: blood donation in the social world: toward a critical, contextualized paradigm of understanding Intersecting organizational fields Institutional entrepreneurs, skilled actors, and organizational myth Power and policy diffusion Issues in the supply of blood products and the circulation of body parts Charting a research agenda Index