Le don du sang à la lumière de l'anthropologie

In his well-known Essai sur le don, French anthropologist Marcel Mauss has shown that in all societies, donation and exchange of gifts are part of people's commitments. Although systematically denied, that obligation is one of the main sources of sociability. In this respect, blood donation can be considered as a very common act, except that, since blood comes from human body, that act is, at the same time, very special and meaningful.