Credits
Curator and Digital Engagement Fellow
Claire Turner
Project Lead
Jieun Kim
Co-Production Lead
Sarah Chadwick
Collections Researcher
Steph Bennett
Partners
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Korea Leukemia Patients Organization
Leigh Bowser and all the participants at the blood bag workshops
Resources
Anupam Aich, Alvin J Beitz and Kalpna Gupta, ‘Mechanisms of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease’, in Sickle Cell Disease Pain and Common Chronic Complications, ed. by Baba Psalm Duniya Inusa (InTech, 2016)
Lindy P. J. Arts et al., ‘Psychological Distress Among Patients with Lymphoma: The Association with Personality and Coping Strategies’, Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice, 3 (2021), e041
Guillaume Aubert, ‘Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1789′, in Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), pp. 175-195
Ronald Bayer and Eric Feldman, ‘Introduction: Understanding the Blood Feuds’, in Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster, ed. by Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 1-16
Boel Berner, Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond (Bielefeld Transcript Verlag, 2020)
Bettina Bildhauer, ‘Medieval European Conceptions of Blood: Truth and Human Integrity’, in Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows, ed. by Janet Carsten (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013) pp. 57-76
Gregory L. Block, ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses and Autonomy: Honouring the Refusal of Blood Transfusions’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 38 (2012), 652-656
E.K. Burton, ‘Red Crescents: Race, Genetics, and Sickle Cell Disease in the Middle East’, Isis, 110 (2019), 250–269
Johanne Charbonneau and Nathalie Y-Lang Tran, ‘The Symbolic Roots of Blood Donation’, Transfusion, 53 (2013), 172S-179S
Johanne Charbonneau and André Smith, ‘Introduction: Blood Donation and the Range of Historical and Institutional Trajectories’, in Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism, ed. by Johanne Charbonneau and André Smith (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 1-1
Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Carla L. Peterson and Zira Nunes, ‘Introduction’, in The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900, ed. by Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Carla L. Peterson and Zira Nunes (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 1-22
Jacob Copeman, ‘Religion, Risk, and Excess in the Indian Blood Donation Encounter’, in Giving Blood: The Institutional Making of Altruism, ed. by Johanne Charbonneau and André Smith (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 129-143
Jacob Copeman, ‘The Art of Bleeding: Memory, Martyrdom, and Portraits in Blood’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (2013), 149–171
Katharine A. Craik, ‘Sorting Pistol’s Blood: Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV and Henry V’, in Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), pp. 43-58
Joanne Cullinane, ‘Tainted Blood and Vengeful Spirits: The Legacy of Japan’s Yakugai Eizu (AIDS) Trial’, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 29 (2005) 5–31
Gérard Delille, ‘The Sheed Blood of Christ: From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity’, in Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), pp. 125-143
S. Dyson, Sickle Cell Disease and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement (London: Routledge, 2019)
Cornelia Essner, ‘Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of “Jewish Blood”’, in Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), pp. 227-243
Eric A. Feldman, ‘HIV and Blood in Japan: Transforming Private Conflict into Public Scandal’, in Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster, ed. by Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 59-94
Paul L. F. Giangrande, ‘The History of Blood Transfusion’, British Journal of Haematology, 110 (2000), 758-767
Lawrence Hill, Blood: The Stuff of Life (Toronto: Anansi, 2013)
Jaehwan Hyun, ‘Blood Purity and Scientific Independence: Blood Science and Postcolonial Struggles in Korea, 1926-1975′, Science in Context, 32 (2019), 239-260
Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp, ‘Introduction’, in Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700, ed. by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), pp. 1-12
Christopher H. Johnson, ‘Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780-1880′, in Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), pp. 196-226
Ann Louise Kibbie, Transfusion: Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (London: University of Virginia Press, 2019)
A. Kidane et al., ‘Use of Race and Ethnicity in Sickle Cell Disease Research’, Blood, 142 (2023), 5317–5317
Jieun Kim, ‘The Specter of “Bad Blood” in Japanese Blood Banks’, New Genetics and Society, 37 (2018), 296-318
Jeff Kingston, Japan’s Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (London: Routledge, 2004)
Phil Learoyd, ‘Charles Waller and Edward Doubleday – Colleagues of James Blundell and Early Supporters of Blood Transfusion’, Transfusion Medicine (2024), 1-5
Phil Learoyd, ‘The History of Blood Transfusion Prior to the 20th Century – Part 1’, Transfusion Medicine, (2012), 308-314
Phil Learoyd, ‘The History of Blood Transfusion Prior to the 20th Century – Part 2’, Transfusion Medicine, (2012), 372-376
Susan E. Lederer, ‘Bloodlines: Blood Types, Identity, and Association in Twentieth-Century America’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (2013), S118-S129
Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Rebecca Lynch and Simon Cohn, ‘Beyond the Person: The Construction and Transformation of Blood as a Resource’, Critical Public Health, 27 (2017), 362-372
S. R. Maluf, ‘History of Blood Transfusion: The Use of Blood from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 9 (1954) 59-107
George McLoughlin, ‘The British Contribution to Blood Transfusion in the Nineteenth Century’, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 31 (1959), 503-516
Pete Moore, Blood and Justice: The 17th Century Parisian Doctor Who Made Blood Transfusion History (West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2003)
Dorothy Nelkin, ‘Cultural Perspectives on Blood’, in Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster, ed. by Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 273-292
S.C. Nelson and H.W. Hackman, ‘Race Matters: Perceptions of Race and Racism in a Sickle Cell Center’, Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 60 (2013), 451–454
Linda Palfreeman, Spain Bleeds: The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion during the Civil War (Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2015)
Kim Pelis, ‘Blood Clots: The Nineteenth-Century Debate Over the Substance and Means of Transfusion in Britain’, Annals of Science, 54 (1997), 331-360
André Picard, The Gift of Death: Confronting Canada’s Tainted Blood Tragedy (Canada: Harper Collins, 2019)
Michael Jay Polonsky, Bianca Brijnath and André M. N. Renzaho, ‘“They don’t want our blood”: Social Inclusion and Blood Donation among African Migrants in Australia’, Social Science & Medicine, 73 (2011), 336-342
Jennifer Robertson, ‘Hemato-Nationalism: The Past, Present, and Future of “Japanese Blood”’, Medical Anthropology, 31 (2012), 93-112
Fatima Roso-Bas et al., ‘Analysis of Personality Traits in Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma’, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10 (2021), 1631
C. D. Royal et al., ‘Living with Sickle Cell Disease: Traversing ‘Race’ and Identity’, Ethnicity & Health, 16 (2011), 389–404
David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher, ‘Introduction’, in Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, ed. By Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), pp. 1-17
William H. Schneider, ‘Blood Transfusion in Peace and War, 1900-1918′, Social History of Medicine (1997), 105-126
Wayne Soon, ‘Blood, Soy Milk, and Vitality: The Wartime Origins of Blood Banking in China, 1943-45′, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90 (2016), 424-454
Aspasia Stephanou, ‘A “Ghastly Operation”: Transfusing Blood, Science and the Supernatural in Vampire Texts’, Gothic Studies, 15 (2013), 53-65
Beatrice Turner, ‘“[We] had not the tries of blood to unite us”: Family Genuis and Family Blood in William Godwin Jr.’s Transfusion’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 71 (2017), 457-484
Kylie Valentine, ‘Citizenship, Identity, Blood Donation’, Body & Society, 11 (2005), 113-128
Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Keith Wailoo, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Nicholas Whitfield, ‘Who is my Stranger? Origins of the Gift in Wartime London, 1939-45′, in Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows, ed. by Janet Carsten (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013), pp. 94-116