Like a Grinding Stone: How Crowdfunding Platforms Create, Perpetuate, and Value Health Inequities.
This article explores how inequities are reproduced by, and valued within, the increasingly ubiquitous world of medical crowdfunding. As patients use platforms like GoFundMe to solicit donations for health care, success stories inundate social media. But most crowdfunders experience steep odds and m...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 327 - 346 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2021
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