When blood circulates like money: population economics and HIV/AIDS in rural central China
Keywords:
HIV/AIDS, economy, epidemiology, ChinaAbstract
This ethnographically informed epidemiology focuses on a politically sustained population economics as a decisive determinant bringing about and shaping the HIV/AIDS epidemic among rural commercial blood donors in central China. The political management of populations as economic resources is most becomes more evident when a confluence of circulating economic spheres creates the conditions for the extraction of value, not from labor, but from human plasma obtained from agricultural producers. In the context of China’s political culture, the epidemiological “vulnerability” in this case study reveals contradictions in the kind of economic rationality that intervens in the protection of a population.
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