Crowded Out
The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare
$45.05
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2024
Summary
An eye-opening investigation into charitable crowdfunding for healthcare in the United States-and the consequences of allowing health care access to be decided by the digital crowd.
Over the past decade, charitable crowdfunding has exploded in popularity across the globe. Sites such as GoFundMe, which now boasts a “global community of over 100 million” users, have transformed the ways we seek and offer help. When faced with crises-especially medical ones-Americans are turning to onlin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262548038 |
| Author: | Nora Kenworthy |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“The book is a powerful exposition on the morality of an economic and charitable system that forces the most vulnerable to become, at their moment of greatest and often tragic need, digital campaigners on behalf of Big Healthcare. Crowded Out also illustrates how the rise of crowdfunding, just like donor-advised funds, is yet another chapter in the financialization of charity, amassing private profits under the guise of doing public good.”
—The Chronicle of Philanthropy
About The Author
Nora Kenworthy
Nora Kenworthy is Associate Professor at the University of Washington Bothell. She is the author and editor of several books, and her writing has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, PLOS One, Scientific American, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
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