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Crowded Out : The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare by Nora Kenworthy (2024, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262548038

ISBN-139780262548038

eBay Product ID (ePID)7062277943

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCrowded Out : the True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare

SubjectPublic Health, Crowdfunding

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics, Medical

AuthorNora Kenworthy

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-030415

Reviews"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

Table Of ContentIntroduction 1 Selling Sickness 2 Deservingness on Display 3 The Wisdom of the Crowd? 4 The Cruelty of Digital Opportunity 5 Downstream Fixes, Upstream Problems 6 Crowded Futures, or Mutual Liberation? Appendix: Methods and Approaches Acknowledgements Notes Index

SynopsisAn 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 online platforms that promise to connect them to the charity of the crowd. What does this new phenomenon reveal about the changing ways we seek and provide healthcare? In Crowded Out, Nora Kenworthy examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, where it is taking us, and who gets left behind by this new platformed economy. Although crowdfunding has become ubiquitous in our lives, it is often misunderstood- rather than a friendly free market "powered by the kindness" of strangers, crowdfunding is powerfully reinforcing inequalities and changing the way Americans think about and access healthcare. Drawing on extensive research and rich storytelling, Crowded Out demonstrates how crowdfunding for health is fueled by-and further reinforces-financial and moral "toxicities" in market-based healthcare systems. It offers a unique and distressing look beneath the surface of some of the most popular charitable platforms and helps to foster thoughtful discussions of how we can better respond to healthcare crises both small and large., 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 online platforms that promise to connect them to the charity of the crowd. What does this new phenomenon reveal about the changing ways we seek and provide healthcare? In Crowded Out, Nora Kenworthy examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, where it is taking us, and who gets left behind by this new platformed economy. Although crowdfunding has become ubiquitous in our lives, it is often misunderstood: rather than a friendly free market "powered by the kindness" of strangers, crowdfunding is powerfully reinforcing inequalities and changing the way Americans think about and access healthcare. Drawing on extensive research and rich storytelling, Crowded Out demonstrates how crowdfunding for health is fueled by--and further reinforces--financial and moral "toxicities" in market-based healthcare systems. It offers a unique and distressing look beneath the surface of some of the most popular charitable platforms and helps to foster thoughtful discussions of how we can better respond to healthcare crises both small and large.

LC Classification NumberRA971.3