TY - BOOK ID - 78070538 TI - Banning queer blood PY - 2015 SN - 0817389636 9780817389635 PB - Tuscaloosa DB - UniCat KW - Social Responsibility. KW - Social Identification. KW - Health Policy. KW - Homosexuality, Male. KW - Blood Donors. KW - Blood KW - Gay men. KW - Blood donors. KW - Accountability KW - Communitarianism KW - Future Generations KW - Obligations to Society KW - Social Accountability KW - Obligation, Social KW - Responsibility, Social KW - Accountability, Social KW - Future Generation KW - Generation, Future KW - Generations, Future KW - Obligations, Social KW - Responsibilities, Social KW - Social Obligation KW - Social Obligations KW - Social Responsibilities KW - Society, Obligations to KW - Social Identity KW - Group Identification KW - Identification, Social KW - Group Identifications KW - Identification, Group KW - Identifications, Group KW - Identifications, Social KW - Identities, Social KW - Identity, Social KW - Social Identifications KW - Social Identities KW - Donors, Blood KW - Persons KW - Gays, Male KW - Homosexuals, Male KW - Male gays KW - Male homosexuals KW - Urnings KW - Gays KW - Men KW - Body fluids KW - Fear of blood KW - Blood Donation KW - Blood Donations KW - Blood Donor KW - Donation, Blood KW - Donations, Blood KW - Donor, Blood KW - Male Homosexuality KW - Sexual and Gender Minorities KW - Healthcare Policy KW - National Health Policy KW - Health Policies KW - Health Policy, National KW - Healthcare Policies KW - National Health Policies KW - Policy, Health KW - Policy, Healthcare KW - Policy, National Health KW - Policy Making KW - Collection and preservation KW - Social aspects. KW - Phlebotomy KW - Health Care Policies KW - Care Policies, Health KW - Health Care Policy KW - Policies, Health KW - Policies, Health Care KW - Policies, Healthcare KW - Policy, Health Care KW - Professional Identification KW - Professional Identity Formation KW - Formation, Professional Identity KW - Formations, Professional Identity KW - Identification, Professional KW - Identifications, Professional KW - Identity Formation, Professional KW - Identity Formations, Professional KW - Professional Identifications KW - Professional Identity Formations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78070538 AB - In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of AIDS came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration, by employing images that specifically depict gay men as contagious, has categorized gay men as a menace to the nation. The FDA's ban on blood donation by gay men remains in effect and serves to propagate the social misconceptions about gay men that circulate within both the straight and gay communit ER -