Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department on Zoom for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

Join here: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98806866680?from=addon

Objectives: 

1. Describe key ethical concerns with the use of charitable crowdfunding for health care needs
2. Appraise potential benefits and drawbacks for patients who may be considering crowdfunding
3. Identify alternatives to crowdfunding in financing healthcare

About our presenter:

Nora Kenworthy is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. She is also adjunct faculty in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology at UW Seattle. Broadly speaking, her work examines how politics, technology, and inequality affect health. She is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), and of the award- winning ethnography, Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017). She received her PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.