Titmuss, Richard Morris, 1907-1973

The gift relationship : from human blood to social policy / by Richard M. Titmuss. - Original edition, with new chapters / edited by Ann Oakley and John Ashton. - 360 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

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

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Blood donors.
Blood--Transfusion--Social aspects.

RM171. / T57 1997

362.1784