TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shim,Jae-Mahn
AU  - Baek,Seung-Hyun
TI  - A sociological perspective on blood plasma donation during the pandemic: convalescent gifts and liminality 
T2  - Routledge advances in sociology
SN  - 9781003493723
U1  - 615.3/9 23/eng/20240613
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Plasma exchange (Therapeutics)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Blood donors
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Influence
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity
N1  - Ways of Liminality -- Turning Liminal -- Plasma Donations -- Life Reassembled
N2  - "Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book reveals what plasma donation means for their efforts to reassemble their lives from being liminal moments to livable experiences, through interviews with convalescent donors in South Korea. It shows the very multiplex meaning of plasma donations that enabled people to effectively manoeuvre through the challenging liminality in life during Covid-19 by expanding the existing literature of gifts and donation that highlights the rich, complex meanings of the body parts donated. It presents a vivid dialogue between liminality and gift-making from varied narratives. A vital read for scholars, students of sociology, anthropology, and public health and those interested in how subjects reconstitute their agency amid uncertainty inside and outside the pandemic, so that we appreciate the voices of donors and learn from the lived experiences of those in this book"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003493723
ER  -