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American blood banks
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American blood banks
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navigating gift and commodity exchange
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Bezborodko
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Ekaterina
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Ekaterina Bezborodko
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Leichenko
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Robin
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Robin Leichenko
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chair
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St. Martin
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Kevin
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Kevin St. Martin
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internal member
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Birkenholtz
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Trevor Birkenholtz
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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2013-10
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The U.S. blood supply system, which underpins much of modern healthcare, daily engages in both market and gift exchange. Voluntary blood donation in the midst of a profit-oriented healthcare system is usually taken for granted and rarely discussed in the national debate over commodification of medicine. This thesis investigates how non-profit blood banks balance the demands of all the markets that they participate in, while supplying a substance that is provided as a gift by donors. The research questions are: What are the historical roots of the American blood supply system, or how was the current mix of commodity and gift exchange established? What kind of calculation, competition, and price setting do blood banks engage in? What kind of gift exchange do blood banks engage in? How is blood both a commodity and a gift, and what does this mean for blood banks? Using an analytical framework based on Michel Callon’s theory of market formation, the thesis investigates U.S. Senate archives from the 1960s and interviews with current blood bank staff in New Jersey to describe the historical and contemporary practices that allow blood banks to manage their participation in multiple economies. This research confirms the idea that blood can be considered both a gift and a commodity, while demonstrating how people in a variety of organizational roles theorize this situation.
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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v, 73 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Ekaterina Bezborodko
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Blood banks--United States
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Commodification
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Blood--Collection and preservation--United States
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD graduate
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Ekaterina
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2013-09-30 20:17:02
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Ekaterina Bezborodko
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2014-05-02
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 2nd, 2014.
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