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@article{ Casado Neira2006, title = {'Corpore sano in mens sana': la dimensión moral de la sangre en la donación de sangre}, author = {Casado Neira, David}, journal = {Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social}, number = {10}, pages = {41-55}, year = {2006}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64266}, abstract = {Modern conceptions of health separate body from soul in the familiar Cartesian dualism. In blood donation this separation is easy to identify: embodiment is a civilizing process, and altruism is the moral basis that supports it. The donor is treated as essentially a vessel of blood, a mere container which can be directed to discharge its contents into blood banks. The biomedical use of blood is not morally neutral; indeed, the donor's moral conscience is mobilised in order to get them to donate blood as a gift, or offering. By associating donors' altruism with their bodies' physical nature as a container from which blood can be extracted, altruism is treated as a physiological phenomenon.}, }