Giving Blood

Johanne Charbonneau is Professor at the Université INRS – Centre Urbanisation Culture et Société.André Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• Introduction: Blood donation and the Range of Historical and Institutional Trajectories by Johanne Charbonneau and André Smith Part I: The Evolution of Blood Clinics 1. "What Flows Between Us": Blood Donation and Transfusion in the United States (19th-20th Centuries) by Jean-Paul Lallemand-Stempak 2. History of Transfusion in Africa: Who Gave Blood? by William H. Schneider 3. Public Health Works: Blood Donation in Urban China by Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin and Phuoc Le 4. The Contaminated Blood Affair in France: A Turning Point in Blood Donation by Sophie Chauveau Part II: The Institutional Politics of Donor Recruitment 5. The Marketing of Blood Donation: Organizational Discourse, Practice, and Symbolic Tension in a Blood Donation Clinic by André Smith 6. The Influence of Blood Collection Organizations on Blood Donation Motivations and Practices by Johanne Charbonneau and Anne Quéniart 7. Religion, Risk and Excess in the Indian Blood Donation Encounter by Jacob Copeman 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 by Renaud Crespin and Bruno Danic 9. Blood Donation in Australia: Altruism and Exclusion by Kylie Valentine 10. A Latin American Perspective on Blood Donation and Transfusion Systems by Maria Cristina Martinez Valenzuela and Carlos Alberto Sanchez 11. "She Is My Blood": Donation and Reciprocity in Trinidad by Vishala Parmasad Conclusion: Blood Donation in the Social World: Toward a Critical, Contextualized Paradigm of Understanding by André Smith and Johanne Charbonneau

This volume follows nicely upon Kieran Healy's work, which focused on the differing organizational contexts of blood donation across Europe and the impact of them on the numbers and variety of blood donors obtained. It goes beyond his work to investigate blood donation systems in a wide range of countries, both developed and developing. In the concluding chapter, the editors do an excellent job of extracting common themes and issues from the extremely varied presentations across the chapters. I would recommend this book to organizational and cultural sociologists, as well as political scientists and students of public health.—Professor Jane Allyn Piliavin, Conway-Bascom Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison