Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, author of After Kinship, and editor of Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows.

Foreword / Thomas Gibson  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
The Public Life of Blood I: Donation in the News  35
1. Blood Donation  43
The Public Life of Blood II: Newspapers and Laboratory Life  75
2. Lab Spaces and People: Categories and Distinctions at Work  79
The Public Life of Blood III: Elections and Their Aftermath  116
3. The Work of the Labs  125
The Public Life of Blood IV: Medical, Supernatural, and Moral Matters  158
4. "Work is Just Part of the Job": Ghosts, Food, and Relatedness in the Labs  165
Conclusion  200
Notes  209
References  217
Index  233