Solidarity and Distinction in Blood
Contamination, Morality and Variability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7674891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jing Shao (0000-0003-3521-6744, Nanjing University, corresponding author), Jing Shao Jing Shao (Nanjing University), Mary Scoggin (Humboldt State University in California) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 29-49 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x09103436 |
| OpenAlex | W2101809155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 44 |
This is an ethnographic exploration into the meanings of contaminated blood. Intense commercial harvesting of human plasma, a blood component, in rural central China during the 1990s resulted in extensive HIV infection among donors. The lack of viral diversity among these infected donors, as revealed by research in molecular epidemiology, confirms that this epidemic took hold and spread rapidly with deadly efficiency through unsanitary plasmapheresis. The distinction in viral strains between this epidemic and the spread of HIV via other routes of transmission in other parts of China serves also to promote claims to victimhood by infected rural commercial donors in the ambiguous geography of moral ambivalence towards carriers of the virus. Through a series of vignettes from field research among rural plasma donors in China, this article examines the tensions between solidarity and distinction, victimhood and responsibility, alliance and strife as they play out in meanings derived from contaminated blood, within their everyday experience and also within their participation in the broader HIV/AIDS activism, in which their distinction is inevitably challenged
Alliance · Ambivalence · China · Criminology · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology
TWO A Surfeit of Bodies
Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception
Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship
When Bodies RememberExperiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa
Life Exposed
Strange Harvest
Evolution of China's response to HIV/Aids
The epidemiology of HIV infection and Aids in Thailand
Cultures of Relatedness
Aids and Accusation
The Politics of Life Itself
Aids, homophobia and biomedical discourse
The Potential for Rapid Sexual Transmission of HIV in China
Conceiving the New World Order
The Other Kidney
Sexual Behavior in China
Aids and Syphilis
The Activist State
Beyond the Nation? Or within
Anthropology and Psychology
Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease
The Circulatory System
Fluid Labor and Blood Money
From "Rights" to "Ritual
The scene
Strange circulations
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |