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A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation in London, 1921--1946 (cited 2011)

University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Cambridge University
Publication date: cited 2011
Language: English

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Blood transfusion Surgery Blood donors World War II Altruism 20th century London (England)

A Genealogy of the Gift uses history to challenge a strengthening interpretation of the gift as `anachronistic¿, that is, symptomatic of early face-to-face blood transfusion but thoroughly incompatible with technological advances in the manufacturing, storage and distribution of blood products. On the contrary, the gift emerged in processes of expansion that first flourished in World War II and, to a greater extent, remain with us. The opening chapter examines the case of interwar London, where surgical one-to-one transfusions of whole blood were the norm but the morality of a giver took precedence over the theme of the gift. Three subsequent chapters consider the shift `from giver to gift¿, through the planning of an emergency service in autumn 1939 to the development of specialist venues of blood collection and the promotion of fictive recipients in connection with `the gift in the battle line¿. A final chapter questions the legacy of these changes in the planning of a postwar service from 1943. By confronting the alleged hostility of modern blood supplies to altruism with a story of coincidence and mutual complicity, this thesis makes a claim for the importance of history in understanding the boundaries and potential of gift rhetoric. ]]>

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