Affective economies in crowdfunding for cancer.
Cancer patients and survivors in the United States are increasingly likely to use online crowdfunding as a means of offsetting the expenses associated with their medical care. This practice of making an online appeal for support to a broad public audience constitutes an inadvertent form of informal...
| Published in: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2025
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