The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

ISBN-13: 9781447349600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 356 str.

Richard Titmuss

Opis

In this reissued classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.

Spis treści

New introduction; Introduction: human blood and social policy; The transfusion of blood; The demand for blood in England and Wales and the United States; The supply of blood in England and Wales and the United States; The gift; The characteristics of blood donors in the United States; The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales; Is the gift a good one?; Blood and the law of the marketplace; Blood donors in the former Soviet Union and other countries; A study of blood donor motivation in South Africa; Economic man: social man; Who is my stranger?; The right to give.