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Blood Work - Life and Laboratories in Penang (Paperback)
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Blood Work - Life and Laboratories in Penang (Paperback)
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
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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 reflects the social,
cultural, and political dynamics of modern Malaysia. Carsten
follows hospital workers into factories and community halls on
blood drives and brings readers into the operating theater as a
machine circulates a bypass patient's blood. Throughout, she
foregrounds blood's symbolic power, uncovering the processes that
make the hospital, the blood bank, the lab, and science itself
work. In this way, blood becomes a privileged lens for
understanding the entanglements of modern life.
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