The circulatory system: Blood procurement, AIDS, and the social body in China
The circulatory system: Blood procurement, AIDS, and the social body in China
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DOI：
10.1525/maq.2006.20.2.139
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Erwin, Kathteen
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作者：
Erwin, Kathteen
血液市场在中国蓬勃发展了十多年，掠夺了急需现金的农村村民。利润动机和不卫生的收集造成了艾滋病的流行，现在一些村庄高达80%的成年人感染了艾滋病毒。今天，非法血库继续在一些地区运作。此外，更好的筛查和血液检测对解决潜在的不愿献血的文化问题几乎没有帮助。本文探讨了当今中国献血者在身体和社会血液循环中面临的风险。我认为，公共卫生和社会政策的解决方案需要考虑的象征意义的血液和身体，亲属关系和礼物交换。中国受艾滋病毒污染的血液采购危机要求我们对“循环系统”中的血液处理过程进行严格的重新审视，这个过程将“生命的礼物”和“死亡的商品”不可分割地联系在一起。"
The market for blood thrived in China for more than a decade, preying on rural villagers desperate for cash. Profit motives and unhygienic collection created an AIDS epidemic, where now up to 80 percent of adults in some villages are HIV infected. Today, illegal blood banks continue to operate in some areas. Moreover, better screening and blood testing do little to address the underlying cultural reluctance to give blood. This article examines what is at stake for blood donors in the circulation of blood through both the physical and the social bodies in China today. I argue that public health and social policy solutions require consideration of the symbolic meanings of blood and the body, kin relations, and gift exchange. China's HIV-contaminated blood procurement crisis demands a critical reexamination of the bidden processes embedded in a "circulatory system" that has inseparably bound the "gift of life" and a "commodity of death."