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Blood Work

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Blood Work

By Janet Carsten

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About the book

What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their varied motivations, and the paperwork, payment, and other bureaucratic processes involved in blood donation, tracking the interpersonal relations between lab staff and revealing how their work with blood ...Show more

Social and cultural anthropology

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9781478004202

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Blood Work

Format

Hardcover

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