Introduction: Blood will out / Janet Carsten

Lifeblood, liquidity, and cash transfusions: beyond metaphor in the cultural study of finance / Kath Weston

The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil / May Mayblin

Medieval European conceptions of blood: truth and human integrity / Bettina Bildhauer

The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship / Fenella Cannell

Who is my stranger? Origins of the gift in warime London, 1939-45 / Nicholas Whitfield

Bloodlines: blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America / Susan E. Lederer

"Searching for the truth": tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs / Janet Carsten

The art of bleeding: memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood / Jacob Copeman

Blood and the brain / Emily Martin