Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism

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