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SUMMARY:Communities of Fate: Blood Donors, Exchange Relations & Public Health Practices in China 
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 	Presented by Professor Kathleen Erwin.\n
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 	The 
 AIDS crisis predicated on contaminated blood 
 donations in rural China in the 1990s not 
 only had devastating implications for HIV transmission 
 among the rural poor, it also reverberated 
 throughout China and internationally, 
 fixing attention on blood procurement practices 
 and the role of states, public health systems, 
 and even individuals, for ensuring safe 
 blood supplies. Blood donation practices sit 
 at the nexus of individual, familial, cultural, 
 state and even international systems of 
 procurement and exchange. Based on ethnographic 
 research in Shanghai and engaging debates 
 in medical anthropology, bioethics, and Chinese 
 studies, this paper explores the ways in which 
 the blood donation practices in China today 
 are both embedded in and transformative of 
 exchange relations in multiple and overlapping 
 contexts of donors, their families, co-workers, 
 state and public health entities, and 
 even broader transnational publics.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:303 International Center
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