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Blood Work
Life and Laboratories in Penang
Taschenbuch von Janet Carsten
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Janet Carsten
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword / Thomas Gibson ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
The Public Life of Blood I: Donation in the News 35
1. Blood Donation 43
The Public Life of Blood II: Newspapers and Laboratory Life 75
2. Lab Spaces and People: Categories and Distinctions at Work 79
The Public Life of Blood III: Elections and Their Aftermath 116
3. The Work of the Labs 125
The Public Life of Blood IV: Medical, Supernatural, and Moral Matters 158
4. "Work is Just Part of the Job": Ghosts, Food, and Relatedness in the Labs 165
Conclusion 200
Notes 209
References 217
Index 233
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478004813
ISBN-10: 1478004819
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carsten, Janet
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Janet Carsten
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,376 kg
Artikel-ID: 114836993
Über den Autor
Janet Carsten
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword / Thomas Gibson ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
The Public Life of Blood I: Donation in the News 35
1. Blood Donation 43
The Public Life of Blood II: Newspapers and Laboratory Life 75
2. Lab Spaces and People: Categories and Distinctions at Work 79
The Public Life of Blood III: Elections and Their Aftermath 116
3. The Work of the Labs 125
The Public Life of Blood IV: Medical, Supernatural, and Moral Matters 158
4. "Work is Just Part of the Job": Ghosts, Food, and Relatedness in the Labs 165
Conclusion 200
Notes 209
References 217
Index 233
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478004813
ISBN-10: 1478004819
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carsten, Janet
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Janet Carsten
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,376 kg
Artikel-ID: 114836993
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