Blood donation practices, motivations and beliefs in Montreal's Black communities: the modern gift under a new light

Tran, Nathalie; Charbonneau, Johanne; Valderrama-Benitez, Valeria

doi:10.1080/13557858.2012.734279

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“…The strong presence of immigrants (two to three times more than the rest of the province) may partially explain the unique situation of these two cities. As reported by several authors [11,12,14,15], immigrants tend to give less blood for religious, cultural or other reasons such as a misunderstanding of the process or safety of the system [34,35]. Consequently, this variable is also negatively significant in five of the eight subgroup analyses (Table 4).…”

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“…Similarly, unemployment rate is lower for the 18-29 and 60-69 groups but higher for the [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] group. Average income is lower in high donation rate areas for the 30-39, 40-49 and 50-59 analyses while high-education is significantly higher only for the youngest blood donor (the 18-29 age category).…”

Section: Factors Related To the Presence Of High Blood Donation Rate mentioning

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Blood donation clusters in Québec, Canada (2003–2008): spatial variations according to sex and age

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“…The motif of human-to-human donation is therefore a useful fiction, reinforced in posters, advertising and webpages. What is intriguing is that this narrative also continues to be reproduced in much of the social science research on the topic, which invariably focuses on the different ways the exchange of blood establishes social ties though its status as a gift (Tran, Charbonneau and Valderrama, 2013;Mahon-Daly, 2012;Wynne Busby, 2010;Healy, 2000). Over thirty years ago, Gregory (1982) noted that gift-based economies comprise of exchanging 'inalienable' goods (objects that are invested with personhood and social relationships).…”

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Beyond the person: the construction and transformation of blood as a resource

Lynch

Cohn

2017

Critical Public Health

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ABSTRACT:Many studies of blood donation have looked at the motives of donors, their relationship with the wider society, and corresponding values such as gift-giving, altruism and responsibility.These underpin a rhetorical representation of person-to-person donation that neglects the many technical processes that take place between donation and eventual use and the material nature of blood itself. This ethnographic study, conducted in four UK blood donation sites, describes the various practices involved in routine sessions, rather than the motives or values or donors or staff. It focuses on the procedures and equipment that not only ensure blood is collected safely and efficiently, but the extent to which they determine the nature of the collected blood itself. Taking our cue from posthuman approaches, we argue donated blood as something that is 'made' only when it leaves the body; in other words, it is not simply extracted, but is constructed through specific practices. We illustrate how, as blood is separated from the body, it is increasingly depersonalized and reconstituted in order to have biomedical value. In this way, rather than reproduce the essentialist claim that blood is what social scientists often described as a 'special kind of substance', we point to the ways in which donated blood alters as it moves in time and space. We argue that such transformations occur in both symbolic and material realms, such that the capacity of blood to have both cultural meaning and clinical value is dependent on the fact that it is never stable or singular.

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“…Professor Johanne Charbonneau currently holds this chair. This co-funding arrangement has enabled substantial advances in our understanding of the influence of family on donation decisions and explored motivators and barriers to recruiting donors from ethnic minority groups [24,25,26]. These dynamic collaborations between BCAs and university researchers in Europe and North America have resulted in substantial, important contributions to our basic scientific understanding of donor characteristics, motivations, and behaviors.…”

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Donor Research in Australia: Challenges and Promise

Masser

Smith

Williams

2014

Transfus Med Hemother

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Donors are the key to the core business of Blood Collection Agencies (BCAs). However, historically, they have not been a focus of research undertaken by these organizations. This model is now changing, with significant donor research groups established in a number of countries, including Australia. Donor research in the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (Blood Service) is concentrated in the Donor and Community Research (DCR) team. Cognizant of the complex and ever-changing landscape with regard to optimal donor management, the DCR team collaborates with academics located at universities around Australia to coordinate a broad program of research that addresses both short- and-long term challenges to the blood supply. This type of collaboration is not, however, without challenges. Two major collaborative programs of the Blood Service's research, focusing on i) the recruitment and retention of plasmapheresis donors and ii) the role of the emotion pride in donor motivation and return, are showcased to elucidate how the challenges of conducting collaborative BCA research can be met. In so doing, these and the other research programs described herein demonstrate how the Blood Service supports and contributes to research that not only revises operational procedures but also contributes to advances in basic science.

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Blood donation practices, motivations and beliefs in Montreal's Black communities: the modern gift under a new light

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Blood donation clusters in Québec, Canada (2003–2008): spatial variations according to sex and age

Blood donation clusters in Québec, Canada (2003–2008): spatial variations according to sex and age

Beyond the person: the construction and transformation of blood as a resource

Donor Research in Australia: Challenges and Promise

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