Is Donated Blood a Gift or a Commodity?
The Gift Relationship
What is the name of Titmuss’s book?
In the mid-to-late 1800s, midwives
Who are black, indigenous, and immigrant women?
Refers to those who legal documents are expired, invalid, or missing
What is undocumented?
Government-mandated workshop that informed midwives about potential birthing emergencies
What causes Leonila to send Lupita away to the regional hospital to give birth
Tens of thousands of patients infected
How many hemophilia patients were infected with Hepatitis C or HIV via contaminated blood?
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What is Holism or a doula?
According to estimates, this is the approximate number of undocumented migrants living in the United States.
What is 11 million
High-tech births, such as caesarean section
What is considered the “norm” for birthing procedures of Mexico’s middle-and-upper class communities?
24 Billion USD
What is the global plasma industry worth?
Fred Alister ideology
What is eugenics?
Signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, this requires hospitals to ask their patients about their immigration status.
What is Senate Bill 1718
Pregnant women give birth in a government hospital
What is one of the requirements of Mexico’s government monthly stipends to the poorest populations?
Blood is a good to be purchased and sold to the highest bidder
How does America handle the distribution of blood?
Ashley’s condition in her first pregnancy
What is placenta previa?
The practice of forcibly removing low-income, uninsured, undocumented patients to other countries
What is medical deportation/repatriation
Word-of-mouth; empirical observations of birth outcomes by community members and clients
How do Mexico’s traditional midwives market their services & gain clientele?
Blood was seen as symbolic up until two decades ago
How did anthropologists use to view blood?
How many black babies die every year due to the racial gap
What is 4000?
This requires hospitals to treat everyone - citizens and non citizens - in emergency cases
What is the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act?
Medical practitioners do not want to take the blame for potential obstetrics emergencies
Why would hospitals turn soon to be mothers away?