School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Sociol Health Illn. 2019 Mar;41(3):553-566. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12805. Epub 2018 Aug 28.
Social scientists have recently diverged from mainstream bioethical discussion on the topic of the medical use of human biological materials for therapeutic, reproductive and research purposes. Rather than justifying the donation and provision of biological materials solely in terms of alleviating physical, psychological and social suffering, saving or enhancing life, and advancing biomedical knowledge, this work looks beyond humanist bioethics to take a social justice approach to questions of the life sciences. In this article, I draw insight from these accounts to propose an approach to the sociology of live kidney and breastmilk donation that is situated at the interface of the new sociology of morality and affect studies. To do so, I examine the moral economy of tissue provision with respect to its organisation around the discourse of altruism and the gift. I then turn to recent work on tissue economies, which are in the business of creating and producing biovalue, to discuss the manipulation of affect and the entanglement of new forms of bio-intimacy in the production and reproduction of somatic life. The aim of the article was to contribute to the study of the sociology of donation as a substantive field of specialisation within sociology.
社会科学家最近在医学上使用人类生物材料的治疗、生殖和研究目的这一主题上，与主流的生物伦理学讨论分道扬镳。这项工作不仅仅是根据减轻身体、心理和社会痛苦、拯救或增强生命以及推进生物医学知识来证明生物材料的捐赠和提供是合理的，而是超越人文主义生物伦理学，采用社会正义方法来解决生命科学的问题。在本文中，我从这些论述中汲取灵感，提出了一种活体肾脏和母乳捐赠的社会学研究方法，这种方法位于新道德社会学和情感研究的交叉点。为此，我研究了组织围绕利他主义和礼物话语的组织，考察了组织围绕利他主义和礼物话语的组织。然后，我转向最近关于组织的工作组织围绕利他主义和礼物话语的组织，讨论了情感的操纵以及在躯体生命的生产和再生产中，新形式的生物亲密关系的纠缠。本文的目的是为捐赠社会学的研究做出贡献，将其作为社会学内部的一个专业领域。
