Altruism, solidarity and affect in live kidney donation and breastmilk sharing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249457 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R M Shaw (0000-0002-6331-1303, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 553-566 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12805 |
| PMID | 30155897 |
| OpenAlex | W2888968656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 57 |
Social scientists have recently diverged from mainstream bioethical discussion on the topic of the medical use of human biological materials for therapeutic, reproductive and research purposes. Rather than justifying the donation and provision of biological materials solely in terms of alleviating physical, psychological and social suffering, saving or enhancing life, and advancing biomedical knowledge, this work looks beyond humanist bioethics to take a social justice approach to questions of the life sciences. In this article, I draw insight from these accounts to propose an approach to the sociology of live kidney and breastmilk donation that is situated at the interface of the new sociology of morality and affect studies. To do so, I examine the moral economy of tissue provision with respect to its organisation around the discourse of altruism and the gift. I then turn to recent work on tissue economies, which are in the business of creating and producing biovalue, to discuss the manipulation of affect and the entanglement of new forms of bio-intimacy in the production and reproduction of somatic life. The aim of the article was to contribute to the study of the sociology of donation as a substantive field of specialisation within sociology
Affect (linguistics · Altruism (biology · Bioethics · Donation · Egg donation · Environmental ethics · Humanism · Political science · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
“If I want to tap into a cord blood bank later, I felt that I should do my part and donate”
Entre(laçar) Para Governar
(Inter)connecting to Lead
Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection on default policies and reputation effects
Proposing a sociology of donation
Ain't No Hood Like Motherhood”
Kelly Needs a New Coat
The 'Selfish Element
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk-Sharing Community
Beyond the Altruism-Egoism Dichotomy
Last Best Gifts
Clinical Labor
The Social Life of Things
Liquid gold or Russian roulette? Risk and human milk sharing in the US news media
Introduction
Social Solidarity and the Gift
The Politics of Life Itself
The Managed Heart
The Moral Significance of Class
When Marcel Mauss’s Essai sur le Don becomes The Gift
Body dirt or liquid gold? How the ‘safety’ of donated breastmilk is constructed for use in neonatal intensive care
Cross-nursing, ethics, and giving breast milk in the contemporary context
Live kidney donation as body work
Pure Gold for Broken Bodies
The Most Good You Can Do
The value of life
Altruism and social solidarity
Normal and Pathological Altruism
Of care and commodities
A thousand plateaus
The virtues of cross-nursing and the 'yuk factor1
Parables for the Virtual
The Division of Labour in Society
Handbook of the Sociology of Morality
Molecular Biopolitics, Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital
Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue
Organ transplantation
From bioethics to a sociology of bio-knowledge
Milk Markets
Revaluing donor and recipient bodies in the globalised blood economy
Rethinking elements of informed consent for living kidney donation
Affective Economies
The Notion of the Gift in the Donation of Body Tissues
Risk, Responsibility, and Rhetoric in Infant Feeding
The New Sociology of Morality
"Living Cadavers" in Bangladesh
Presidential Address on Altruism and Sociology
Motivation and Justification
Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual
Gendering the Gift of Life
Expressionists of the Twenty-First Century
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |