出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The Gift Theory exposed by Marcel Mauss is here used to analyze free, not paid and universal blood donation. According to Mauss, every gift involves three obligations: to give, to get and to return. All of them are present in modern blood donation, even gift is still in force as social exchange. But the gift of blood acquires some specific characteristics and, even when it does not follow the conventional patterns of a gift, it is not possible to obviate its validity. Some problems and conflicts generated under this biomedical practice would be understood if attention to the fuzzy persistence of the logic of gift were played, also in strongly institutionalized social contexts.
