A Sociological Perspective on Blood Plasma Donation During the Pandemic Convalescent Gifts and Liminality

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Synopsis

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.The book reveals what plasma donation means for their efforts to reassemble their lives from being liminal moments to livable experiences, through interviews with convalescent donors in South Korea. It shows it is the very multiplex meanings of plasma donations that enabled people to effectively maneuver through the challenging liminality in life during COVID-19, by expanding the existing literature of gifts and donation that highlights the rich, complex meanings of the body parts donated. It presents a vivid dialogue between liminality and gift-making from varied narratives.A vital read for scholars, students of sociology, anthropology, and public health and those interested in how subjects reconstitute their agency amid uncertainty inside and outside the pandemic, so that we appreciate the voices of donors and learn from the lived experiences of those in this book.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Author:
Jae-Mahn Shim, Seung-Hyun Baek
ISBN:
9781040149775
Related ISBNs:
9781040149690, 9781003493723, 9781032797564
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2024-07-31
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2025
Copyright by:
Jae-Mahn Shim and Seung-Hyun Baek 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Medicine, Nonfiction, Social Studies