The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

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Richard M. Titmuss's The Gift Relationship has long been acknowledged as one of the classic texts on social policy. A seemingly straightforward comparative study of blood donating in the United States and Britain, the book elegantly raises profound economic, political, and philosophical questions. Titmuss contrasts the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is largely in the hands of for-profit enterprises and shows how a nonmarket system based on altruism is ...
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Richard M. Titmuss's The Gift Relationship has long been acknowledged as one of the classic texts on social policy. A seemingly straightforward comparative study of blood donating in the United States and Britain, the book elegantly raises profound economic, political, and philosophical questions. Titmuss contrasts the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is largely in the hands of for-profit enterprises and shows how a nonmarket system based on altruism is more effective than one that treats human blood as another commodity.
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Studies blood donating in England and the US, raising profound economic, social, political, and philosophical questions. Contrasts the British systems of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is largely in the hands of for-profit enterprises, and shows how a nonmarket system based on altruism is more effective. First published in 1970, this new edition retains the original text and adds new chapters on the impact of AIDS, recent developments in blood donation, and systems for human milk donation. For general readers interested in social policy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780043010266
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited
  • Publication date: 1/1/1970
  • Pages: 339

Table of Contents

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Pt. I The gift relationship revisited
Ch. 1 Introduction to the new edition 3
Ch. 2 AIDS and the gift relationship in the UK 15
Ch. 3 Transfusion medicine towards the millennium 41
Pt. II The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy - Original edition
Ch. 4 Introduction: human blood and social policy 57
Ch. 5 The transfusion of blood 61
Ch. 6 The demand for blood in England and Wales and the United States 79
Ch. 7 The supply of blood in England and Wales and the United States 90
Ch. 8 The gift 123
Ch. 9 The characteristics of blood donors and the United States 146
Ch. 10 The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales 178
Ch. 11 Is the gift a good one? 200
Ch. 12 Blood and the law of the marketplace 219
Ch. 13 Blood donors in the former Soviet Union and other countries 236
Ch. 14 A study of blood donor motivation in South Africa 252
Ch. 15 Economic man: social man 260
Ch. 16 Who is my stranger? 276
Ch. 17 The right to give 305
Pt. III The gift relationship: a new beginning
Ch. 18 A mother's gift: the milk of human kindness 319
Ch. 19 Afterword 333
Bibliography 340
Index 346
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