Volume 16, Number 9 · May 20, 1971
Bad Blood
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
The Gift Relationship
by Richard M. Titmuss
Pantheon, 339 pp., $6.95
In The Gift Relationship, the distinguished Professor of Social Administration at the University of London, Richard M. Titmuss, examines and discusses a quite unfamiliar but most revealing index of social values. His book, subtitled 'From Human Blood to Social Policy,' is a study in depth of the contrast between the British and American systems for providing human blood for transfusions, complemented by glimpses of comparable practices in the Soviet Union, South Africa, Japan, and Sweden. More accurately, one might say that Professor Titmuss contrasts the British system for supplying needed blood with the American chaos that fails to provide it, or provides instead a dubious and often fatally deficient or infectious fluid.
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