Title: The gift relationship : from human blood to social policy /
Authors: Titmuss, Richard Morris, 1907-1973.; Oakley, Ann.; Ashton, John, 1947-; London School of Economics and Political Science.
Publisher: LSE Books,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Blood Transfusion Social aspects; Blood donors.
Contents: Pt. I. The gift relationship revisited -- Ch. 1. Introduction to the new edition / Ann Oakley and John Ashton -- Ch. 2. AIDS and the gift relationship in the UK / Virginia Berridge -- Ch. 3. Transfusion medicine towards the millennium / Vanessa Martlew -- Pt. II. The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy -- Original edition / Richard M. Titmuss -- Ch. 4. Introduction: human blood and social policy -- Ch. 5. The transfusion of blood -- Ch. 6. The demand for blood in England and Wales and the United States -- Ch. 7. The supply of blood in England and Wales and the United States -- Ch. 8. The gift -- Ch. 9. The characteristics of blood donors and the United States -- Ch. 10. The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales -- Ch. 11. Is the gift a good one? -- Ch. 12. Blood and the law of the marketplace -- Ch. 13. Blood donors in the former Soviet Union and other countries -- Ch. 14. A study of blood donor motivation in South Africa -- Ch. 15. Economic man: social man -- Ch. 16. Who is my stranger? -- Ch. 17. The right to give -- Pt. III. The gift relationship: a new beginning -- Ch. 18. A mother's gift: the milk of human kindness / Gillian Weaver and A. Susan Williams -- Ch. 19. Afterword / Julian Le Grand.