This is some seriously weird shit

Blood Money: Life, Death, and Plasma on the Las Vegas Strip published in Electronic Journal of Sociology 1999 is seriously bizarre. The beginning is very dry but once you get into the meat of the actual visit to the plasma center the tone changes and becomes surreal and overblown. It's still an interesting read, if you're in the right mood.

Perhaps it says something about me that the parts I found most disturbing was the insistence that Dante's Inferno was published in 1980...