Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang

by Janet Carsten

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004819
• ISBN13: 9781478004813
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"