Dono del sangue. The Research by Fabio Dei on the Cultural Conditions of Blood Donation in Italy

Małgorzata Rygielska

doi:10.35765/pk.2019.2704.13

Małgorzata Rygielska University of Silesia in Katowice https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7723-7677

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2019.2704.13

Keywords: blood donation, medicalization, gift in culture, immigrant communities

Abstract

The article discusses the course and the results of research on blood donation conducted between 2006 and 2007 in Italy among immigrant communities (Romanian and Senegalese) in Tuscany, conducted by the cultural anthropologist Fabio Dei and his team. The studies reveal that practices related to blood donation are accompanied by a plural-ism of mutually incommensurable discourses stemming from a varie-ty of contexts: biomedicine, religious belief, and conceptualizations of health and disease in traditional cultures. Their identification and de-scription may prove to pose a major question in studies on blood dona-tion conducted both in Europe and worldwide.

Author Biography

Małgorzata Rygielska, University of Silesia in Katowice

Adjunct at the Institute of Culture Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia. Conducts research in the theory of culture, history of Polish culture, literatu-re, cultural anthropology, cultural history of medicinal and hygienic practices in Europe. Author of books: Dwa guziki. Norwid i ewolucjo-nizm (2011), Przyboś czyta Norwida (2012), Monografia Ignacego Lubicz Czerwińskiego Okolica Za‑dniestrska. Studium kulturoznawcze (2019), co‑editor (with Anna Gomóła) of Starość jako wyobrażenie kulturowe (2013). She has published articles O physiologii (“Kultura Współczes-na” 2013), Uroki auskultacji, czyli krótka historia stetoskopu (“Kultura Popularna” 2016).

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