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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
Nancy Ann Hiett Gibson for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies
completed on July 2, 2012. Title: “Junk for Jesus” – The Commodified Gift: Donation
in a Global Economy.
Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________
Debrah Bokowski, Ph.D., Thesis Advisor
The donation of used medical equipment and excess medical supplies is promoted
by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as delivering needed goods to provide
healthcare to the developing world. The reality is that much of what is received is
broken, obsolete or inappropriate. Medical devices manufacturing today focuses on high
technology medical diagnostic equipment that must be considered as electronic waste (e-waste)
at the end of its useful life cycle. These “donations” have financial and
environmental costs associated with them that are paid for by the recipient organizations
and the citizens of the receiving countries. The research question posed by this thesis
was: How to create a policy or tool that will give developing countries and recipient
organizations the ability to prevent the flow of donated used medical equipment from
ending up in their landfills? The literature review uses the theoretical framework of
neoliberalism to explain the rise of NGOs taking the place of government and the
resulting depoliticization of the public good. The notion that donated used medical
equipment maintains its status of being life saving at the end of its life cycle is
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