TY - BOOK ID - 96212853 TI - The gift relationship : from human blood to social policy PY - 1970 SN - 9781447349570 9781447349600 9781447349594 1447349628 1447349598 1447349601 144734961X 1447349571 144734958X PB - Bristol: Policy press, DB - UniCat KW - Blood KW - Blood donors KW - Transfusion KW - Social aspects KW - Blood - Transfusion - Social aspects - Great Britain KW - Blood - Transfusion - Social aspects - United States KW - Blood - Transfusion - Cross-cultural studies KW - Blood donors - Great Britain KW - Blood donors - United States KW - Donors, Blood KW - Persons KW - Body fluids KW - Fear of blood UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96212853 AB - In this reissued classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient. ER -