Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
ISBN: 9781478005698
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: Anthropology; Asian Studies / Southeast Asia; Medicine and Health / Global Health;

Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia, showing how those meanings provide a gateway to understanding the social, political, and cultural dynamics of modern life.

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, author of After Kinship , and editor of Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows .

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