Blood Will Out : Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows (Paperback)

Notes on contributors vii

Acknowledgements ix

Janet Carsten Introduction: blood will out 1

1 Kath Weston Lifeblood, liquidity, and cash transfusions: beyond metaphor in the cultural study of finance 24

2 Maya Mayblin The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil 42

3 Bettina Bildhauer Medieval European conceptions of blood: truth and human integrity 56

4 Fenella Cannell The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship 76

5 Nicholas Whitfield Who is my stranger? Origins of the gift in wartime London, 1939-45 94

6 Susan E. Lederer Bloodlines: blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America 117

7 Janet Carsten ‘Searching for the truth’: tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs 129

8 Jacob Copeman The art of bleeding: memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood 147

9 Emily Martin Blood and the brain 170

Index 183