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%T 'Corpore sano in mens sana': la dimensión moral de la sangre en la donación de sangre %A Casado Neira, David %J Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social %N 10 %P 41-55 %D 2006 %K Altruism %= 2009-11-05T11:09:00Z %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64266 %X 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. %C ESP %G es %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info