Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs

Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs

In a very compelling chapter on the response of blood and plasma organizations to the HIV epidemic, he makes a strong argument that it is not the form of exchange - gift or market - that leads to better or worse outcomes, but rather the relationship of the organization to its suppliers and recipient...

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Published in:Social Forces Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 1358 - 1359
Main Author: Piliavin, Jane Allyn
Format: Book Review Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University of North Carolina Press 01-03-2008
Oxford University Press
Subjects:
Adoption
Altruism
Blood
Blood & organ donations
Blood banks
Blood diseases
Business
Comparative Analysis
Donors
Gift giving
Gifts
Hemophilia
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Incentives
Organizational structure
Plasma
Statistical Data
Suppliers
United States > US
Wisconsin
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Summary:In a very compelling chapter on the response of blood and plasma organizations to the HIV epidemic, he makes a strong argument that it is not the form of exchange - gift or market - that leads to better or worse outcomes, but rather the relationship of the organization to its suppliers and recipients. Taking the role of these others, I would have wondered, "If the plasma industry responded so much better to the crisis than the blood industry, why did virtually all hemophiliacs become HIV positive in a very short time?" The process of pooling plasma is of course responsible, but I suspect most don't know this, and don't know why the industry uses pooling.
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ISSN:0037-7732
1534-7605
DOI:10.1353/sof.0.0014