Preface: Deconstructing Donation

Machin, Laura; Cherkassky, Lisa

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“…). Indeed the advent of animal ‘donors’ has already contributed to discussion over whether it is the consenting party or the tissue source who is actually ‘donating’ in both human and animal contexts (Machin and Cherkassky ). In short, the association between voluntary decision‐making and the concept of ‘donation’ is threatened in the veterinary context, where all ‘donors’ lack the capacity to consent.…”

Section: Canine Blood Banking and The Animal ‘Donor’mentioning

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“…Recent arguments have been made against using the term 'donor' to describe non-consenting humans who it is argued should be termed the 'tissue source' ( Van-Assche et al 2014). Indeed the advent of animal 'donors' has already contributed to discussion over whether it is the consenting party or the tissue source who is actually 'donating' in both human and animal contexts (Machin and Cherkassky 2016). In short, the association between voluntary decision-making and the concept of 'donation' is threatened in the veterinary context, where all 'donors' lack the capacity to consent.…”

Section: Canine Blood Banking and The Animal 'Donor'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Doing good by proxy’: human‐animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood

Ashall

Hobson‐West

2017

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article demonstrates the relevance of animals to medical sociology by arguing that pet owners’ accounts of veterinary decision‐making can highlight key sociological themes which are important to both human and animal health. Based on semi‐structured interviews, the article argues that interspecies ‘kinship’ allows for the extension of sociological claims regarding altruism, self‐interest and mutuality from human blood donation to companion animal blood ‘donation’. Furthermore, this study extends sociological understanding of the human‐animal bond by showing how the dog's status as kin meant they were expected to donate blood, and that the act of donation itself represents an important opportunity for family ‘display’. However, owners who do not or cannot donate blood themselves describe pet blood donation as an opportunity to lessen associated feelings of guilt or obligation through ‘doing good by proxy’. These findings raise critical sociological and ethical questions concerning the risks and benefits of donation, and for how we understand third‐party decision making. Finally, the article argues for the close entanglement of human and animal health, and concludes that sociologists of health and medicine should explore the radical possibility that decision‐making in healthcare more generally might be influenced by experiences at the veterinary clinic, and vice versa. (A Virtual Abstract of this paper can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_979cmCmR9rLrKuD7z0ycA)

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Section: Canine Blood Banking and The Animal ‘Donor’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Canine Blood Banking and The Animal 'Donor'mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Doing good by proxy’: human‐animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood

Ashall

Hobson‐West

2017

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Machin and Cherkassky () claim that the context and purpose of donation results in a hierarchy forming based on the value of a body part or outcome acquired through, and attached to, the process of donation. As a result, ‘all donors and their donations are therefore not equal’.…”

Section: Health Research ‘Donations’mentioning

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“…As a result, ‘all donors and their donations are therefore not equal’. (Machin and Cherkassky : 146) Here, we aim to explore and broaden this hierarchy. By stabilising the hierarchy so that one purpose of donation is the focus, that is, research, we are able to draw attention to the significance of time and effort within donation.…”

Section: Health Research ‘Donations’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Altruism has been promoted by medical research agencies as the underpinning principle for biosample donation (Kanellopoulou 2009, Machin andCherkassky 2015). People are urged to donate partly to fulfil their desire to help others, but also because this will promote the kind of community where their donation would be reciprocated (Moorlock et al 2014).…”

Section: Biosamples and Donationmentioning

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From waste product to blood, brains and narratives: developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research

Boylan

Locock

Machin

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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The aim of this paper is to examine the meaning of the concept of donation in health research. Drawing on a set of narrative interviews with people invited to donate biosamples for research and a range of other studies, we identify several conceptual themes that speak to the complexity of the current landscape of critical thinking about donation. These conceptual themes are: the language of 'donation'; a hierarchy of biosamples; alternative informational value; narratives as donation; coincidental donation, convenience and degree of invasiveness; and rights, consent and benefits of research participation. We call for a reconceptualisation of research donation to encompass not only the numerous types of sample readily classed as donations, but also other types of data and contributions, including narrative interviews, psychometric data, patient-reported outcome measures, record-linkage, and time and effort. We argue for the development of a pluralist sociology of research donations, and suggest that a 'sociology of research contributions' might better capture this complexity.

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Proposing a sociology of donation: The donation of body parts and products for art, education, research, or treatment

2020

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This article advances the case for a 'sociology of donation'. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily focusing on the donation of body parts and body products within high-income countries. We will first outline the standard western accounts of donation, and consider how relevant these are to donation practices and policies in the 21st century. We will then critically discuss how a sociology of donation can be used to further current understandings of 'donation' and identify the challenges facing such a proposal, posing questions to encourage reflection on research practices in this area. Finally, we will explore what a sociology of donation might entail. 1 | INTRODUCTION This article contributes to the recent debates surrounding a sociology of donation. International researchers have contemplated a sociology of donation from various standpoints, including morality (Shaw, 2019), gender (Kent,

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Preface: Deconstructing Donation

Cited by 4 publications

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‘Doing good by proxy’: human‐animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood

‘Doing good by proxy’: human‐animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood

From waste product to blood, brains and narratives: developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research

Proposing a sociology of donation: The donation of body parts and products for art, education, research, or treatment

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