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Journal Article
In Defense of the Commercial Provision of Blood: Reactions to Voluntarism in the United States National Blood Policy in the Early 1970s
2006
Overview
In the course of his critique of the commercial provision of blood in The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss raised the following problem. In his view, the voluntary supply of blood was both virtuous and beneficent in its consequences. He favored a particular form of voluntary provision, as was practiced in the UK, and in the US by the American National Red Cross. But he argued this to be in danger of being undermined by the spread of commercialized blood banks, the practices of which he argued to be morally and practically undesirable. For people likely to sell their blood, itself a somewhat stigmatized activity, would, if they were selling out of desperation, be less likely to tell the truth when asked if they had engaged in at-risk behavior, compared to unrewarded donors. In 1971, as a response to this issue, the US government declared itself in favor of a National Blood Policy. One of its concerns was to improve the safety of the blood supply. Ideas about getting rid of the commercial supply of blood were articulated during the period between 1972 and 1973. This paper considers some of the alternatives that stood between so-called blood-for-booze arrangements and the form of donor provision so-called anonymous altruism that Titmuss favored.
