Blood Work : Life and Laboratories in Penang
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 30988698
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1215/9781478005698
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- ISBN
- 9781478004813
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output is the culmination of research in Penang’s hospital laboratories, blood donation sites, and numerous other venues, carried out over a ten-year period, and including three years’ full-time work under the auspices of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. It brings together substantial ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia and analysis of local newspaper and other media sources with a sustained engagement with a broad social science literature on blood. The work makes an original theoretical contribution to literature across several fields: the study of contemporary Malaysia, kinship and relatedness, science studies, and medical anthropology.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Ch.4 first published in 2013 as ‘Ghosts, Commensality and Scuba Diving: Tracing Kinship and Sociality in Clinical Pathology Labs and Blood Banks in Penang’ in the edited book Vital Relations: Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship. The original chapter has been revised with additional material. Some material in ch.3 first published in the 2013 article ‘“Searching for the truth”: Tracing the Moral Properties of Blood in Malaysian Clinical Pathology Labs’, JRAI. New material added and text restructured to contribute to the overall, original argument of the book. Both the original chapter and article were submitted to REF2014.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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