The language of the ‘gift’ continues to be drawn upon in attempts to encourage altruistic organ and tissue donation. My aim here is to consider the anxieties that come into focus when this rhetoric is deployed in the context of ethnic minorities and, moreover, their donation practices are situated within universalistic discourses of charity and the gift. The article considers ideas of the body, debt, obligation, relationality, and solidarity, and how these fit within the overarching projects of society, modernity, and democracy when the market figures as an ever more prominent feature of such projects. Drawing on a variety of examples, the piece reflects on the movement of tissue across ethnically and culturally marked corporeal boundaries ...
There are a number of obstacles to increasing the supply of cadaveric organs for transplantation. Th...
The clinical use of blood has a long history, but its apparent stability belies the complexity of co...
The clinical use of blood has a long history, but its apparent stability belies the complexity of co...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequ...
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) offer an ever-widening repertoire of possibilities for how...
This paper explores the issue of donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a ...
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a ne...
Collections of human tissue (biobanks) are thought to be an essential resource for biomedical resear...
Medical anthropology can bring to living donor trans-plant useful insights on the nature of gifting,...
This article examines the regulatory system surrounding the post-mortem human tissue industry. The a...
In her article “The We in the Me: Solidarity in the Era of Personalized Medicine,” Barbara Prainsack...
AbstractMany studies of blood donation have looked at the motives of donors, their relationship with...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequa...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequa...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequa...
There are a number of obstacles to increasing the supply of cadaveric organs for transplantation. Th...
The clinical use of blood has a long history, but its apparent stability belies the complexity of co...
The clinical use of blood has a long history, but its apparent stability belies the complexity of co...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequ...
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) offer an ever-widening repertoire of possibilities for how...
This paper explores the issue of donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a ...
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a ne...
Collections of human tissue (biobanks) are thought to be an essential resource for biomedical resear...
Medical anthropology can bring to living donor trans-plant useful insights on the nature of gifting,...
This article examines the regulatory system surrounding the post-mortem human tissue industry. The a...
In her article “The We in the Me: Solidarity in the Era of Personalized Medicine,” Barbara Prainsack...
AbstractMany studies of blood donation have looked at the motives of donors, their relationship with...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequa...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequa...
Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequa...
There are a number of obstacles to increasing the supply of cadaveric organs for transplantation. Th...
The clinical use of blood has a long history, but its apparent stability belies the complexity of co...
The clinical use of blood has a long history, but its apparent stability belies the complexity of co...