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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=4
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The MIT Anthropology Department presents<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>“Extracting Blood: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>Relational Technologies in <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><b><font size=6 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Papua New Guinea</span></font></b></st1:country-region></st1:place><b><font
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Biomedicine”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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September 29 @ 12:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt'>A study of how
biomedical technology enables hospitals to harness patients relational
technologies of gift exchange to feed the institutions blood economy. In
contrast to blood <i><span style='font-style:italic'>donation</span></i>,
attention is drawn to different regimes of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>extraction</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Anthropologists studying
voluntary-anonymous systems of blood donation have noted the ways in which they
facilitate imaginings of national relatedness and integration. This paper
focuses on family replacement systems in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Papua New Guinea</st1:country-region></st1:place>, where blood
donated by a patient’s relative replaces the units taken from the bank,
in order to examine what kinds of relational imaginings are possible when blood
is exchanged between people who know one another. Patients in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Madang</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
are led to believe that it is their responsibility to obtain blood donations
from their relatives within a kinship obligation system. However,
articulations of kinship exchange with a biomedical blood economy are not as
straightforward as hospital workers suggest. Instead the hospital emerges as a
crucial, but hidden, mediator in these transactions. Doctors conceal from
patients the fact that blood group incompatibilities mean blood intended for a
specific person may be redirected elsewhere. This ‘biomedical
technology’ enables the hospital to harness patients’
‘relational technologies’ of gift exchange to feed the
institution’s blood economy. In contrast to anthropologists’ common
focus on blood <i><span style='font-style:italic'>donation</span></i>, here
attention is drawn to the role of recipients in negotiating different regimes
of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>extraction</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Amberly Steward<br>
Senior Administrative Assistant<br>
Anthropology Department<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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